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* Maaret Koskinen. Stockholm: Norstedts, 1993. Pp. 278.

One of the few works on Bergman in recent years to warrant sustained critical attention, Koskinen's study focuses on the director's relationship to illusionism and anti-illusionism throughout his production by examining the metaphors of the mirror and the play-within-a-play. These two images, she argues, constitute privileged sites for an investigation of his filmic aesthetic from the perspective of filmic self-reflexivity. After a painstakingly thorough Fonchungsbericht in which she points to the tendency of much (if not ...