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Bergman established a worldwide reputation for writing and directing films that, in an unmistakably individual style, examine the issues of morality by exploring human relationships, with others and with God. His work and the worldwide vogue it enjoyed in the late 1950s and early ’60s introduced many people for the first time to the idea of the total filmmaker, the writer-director who throughout a sizable body of work used the medium of film to express his own ideas and perceptions, with as much ease and conviction as artists in earlier generations used the novel or the symphony or the fresco. ...(100 of 1812 words)