Fridays: 10:00 am – Noon | Oct. 4 – 18, Nov. 1 – 15
Location: Baker Free Library, Bow
Leader: Don Melander | Facilitator: Paul Hague

K – The Films of Ingmar Bergman, Continued

The great auteur Ingmar Bergman’s films are difficult to watch because of their psychological depth and the fact that they are spoken in Swedish, so we have to read subtitles while watching cinematically intense black-and-white movies. We will screen six Bergman films this semester: Persona (1966), Hour of the Wolf (1968), Shame (1968), The Passion of Anna (1969), The Serpent’s Egg (1977), and The Magic Flute (1975).

Don Melander developed and taught a course at NEC called “Literature as Film, Film as Literature.” In the 1980s, he and a history colleague team-taught period courses in American culture in which they explored the possibilities of using movies as cultural “texts.” During the last decade of his career at NEC, he taught the film course for the Communications program.