{"product_id":"sudden-flicker-of-light","title":"Sudden Flicker of Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom cinema’s most distinguished and ‘The best writer on film in our time’ (Michael Ondaatje) comes a masterful assessment of the whole sweep of movie history\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘The movies traded on the liberation of secret desires—drive that car as fast as you can; turn your humble abode into a palace; conquer all the mean spirits in the world; be as free and winsome as the Tramp yet as rich as Charlie … Every lowlife can be a Corleone.’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery flicker of light has its shadow. In this masterful reassessment of the whole arc of movie history, David Thomson, film’s wisest and most penetrating critic, shows us how cinema has entranced and transported us, but also profoundly changed us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the earliest days of the first picture shows to the screens of today, Thomson glories in the great movies. Sharp, arresting readings of films from \u003ci\u003eMetropolis\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eRear Window\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Godfather\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eAnora \u003c\/i\u003ecan be found in these pages. Yet there is unease, too, at how cinema suckered us into a fantasy neverland that only looks like life. Hungry for spectacle and happy endings, submitting to voyeurism and villainy, we have let films change the way we experience reality; a habit of passivity that may have even betrayed our culture and our politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Thomson says, ‘This is our history, and our show.’ The result of a lifetime of immersion and reflection, this book is a reckoning and a testament from a writer who sees like no other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56796817228120,"sku":"9780241843345","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780241843345_481324c4-ccc5-40d2-992e-2ebc970c0198.jpg?v=1781033419","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/sudden-flicker-of-light","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}