A Light in the Dark
A History of Movie Directors
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- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
18 October 2022
Summary
In 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. In a nutshell, the change takes the form of a question: Who directed The Sopr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780228280 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780228287 |
| Author: | David Thomson |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 18 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 229g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 22mm |
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It took over my life for two days. It is a summary of cinema and a requiem. Love and sadness. A prodigious masterwork.
It took over my life for two days. It is a summary of cinema and a requiem. Love and sadness. A prodigious masterwork. * John Boorman, director of DELIVERANCE and HOPE AND GLORY *
Compulsive reading: thoughtful and thought-provoking in equal measure. David Thomson’s knowledge is comprehensive and his response to all films humane and entirely uncorrupted by the conventional hagiography of so much writing about film. He’s engagingly unafraid of challenging received opinion * Richard Eyre *
David Thomson has spent his life thinking hard and deep about cinema, and so he’s uniquely placed to write this lovely, brutal book about the glory of being a film-maker and vainglory of being an auteur * David Hare *
Fizzing … It has that sense of live debate that’s so inimical to social media’s village green … Invaluable * Sight & Sound *
With this dynamic book, Thomson is big enough to follow the cry of “action!” wherever it leads * Sunday Times *
Forensic and stimulating … There is much new thinking, taking into account changes in both film criticism and society – Barry Forshaw * The i, A Book of the Year *
About The Author
David Thomson
Born and raised in London, David Thomson taught Film Studies at Dartmouth College. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times and Independent. He is the acclaimed author of one of the greatest books on cinema, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, plus Rosebud - The Story of Orson Welles; The Whole Equation - A History of Hollywood; and Sleeping with Strangers - How the Movies Shaped Desire. He lives in San Francisco.
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