A light in the dark : a history of movie directors

Thomson, David, 1941-2021

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In little more than a century of cinema - 'Birth of a Nation' was 100 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 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. David Thomson's 'A Light in the Dark' personalises each chapter through an individual. He relates an imaginative new history of a medium that has changed the world.