
A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors
Author: David Thomson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 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...

A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors