{"product_id":"a-light-in-the-dark-by-david-thomson-9781780228280","title":"A Light in the Dark","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn little more than a century of cinema—\u003ci\u003eBirth of a Nation\u003c\/i\u003e 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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a nutshell, the change takes the form of a question: Who directed \u003ci\u003eThe Sopranos\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eHomeland\u003c\/i\u003e? 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Thomson's brilliant \u003ci\u003eA Light in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e personalises each chapter through an individual: Jean Renoir, Howard Hawks, Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, Jane Campion, Stephen Frears, and Quentin Tarantino. Through these characters (and other directors not mentioned here), David Thomson relates an imaginative new history of a medium that has changed the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462590316780,"sku":"9781780228280","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781780228280-a-light-in-the-dark.jpg?v=1775017145","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-light-in-the-dark-by-david-thomson-9781780228280","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}