ARGONAUT BOOKS

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 mor...Read More