{"product_id":"a-light-in-the-dark-a-history-of-movie-directors","title":"A Light in the Dark : A History of Movie Directors","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn little more than a century of cinema - Birth of a Nation was one hundred years old in 2015 - our sense of what a film director is, or should be, has shifted in fascinating ways. A director was once a functionary; then an important but not decisive part of an industrial process; then accepted as the person who was and should be in charge, because he was an artist and a hero. But the world has changed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn a nutshell, the change takes the form of a question: Who directed The Sopranos or Homeland? Hardly anyone knows, because we don't tend to read TV credits and the director has returned to a more subservient and anonymous role. Directors now try to be efficient, the deliverers of profitable films, and are often involved as producers, like Steven Spielberg. David Thomson's brilliant A Light in the Dark personalises each chapter through an individual: Jean Renoir, Howard Hawks, Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Bunuel, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, Jane Campion, Stephen Frears and Quentin Tarantino.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThrough these characters (and other directors not mentioned here), David Thomson relates an imaginative new history of a medium that has changed the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished: UK, 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: Orion Publishing\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePages: 256\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 13: 9781780228280\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 10: 1780228287\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"David Thomson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43816655651082,"sku":"","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9781780228280.jpg?v=1667650133","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/a-light-in-the-dark-a-history-of-movie-directors","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}