Promised Lands
Cinema, Geography, Modernism
Published on 1. May 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-85170-853-9 (ISBN)
Description
An attempt to locate cinema alongside philosophy, painting, geography and travel in terms of a history of modernism. The book focuses on a collection of geographical and ethnographic films and photographs amassed by banker Albert Kahn, in the 1900s - arguably an instance of French modernism.
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Edition
2001
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
535 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85170-853-9 (9780851708539)
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Person
Sam Rohdie is Professor of Film Studies at Queen's University Belfast. Editor of Screen in the 1970s he is the author of books on Pasolini and Antonioni as well as a study of Rocco and His Brothers in the BFI Film Classics series. He is currently working on a Fellini lexicon.