{"product_id":"david-thomson-a-sudden-flicker-of-light-a-revisionist-history-of-the-movies","title":"David Thomson: A Sudden Flicker of Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAllen Lane, 2026, hardcover, 368 pages, \u003cspan\u003e16.4 x 24.2 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\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\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMetropolis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRear Window\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Godfather\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAnora\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58605569507712,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/71d1Pg5EkvL._SY522.jpg?v=1785841448","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/david-thomson-a-sudden-flicker-of-light-a-revisionist-history-of-the-movies","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}