Promised Lands
Cinema, Geography, Modernism
1st Edition
Published on 25. July 2019
220 pages
978-1-83871-764-3 (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
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
colour illustrations
ISBN-13
978-1-83871-764-3 (9781838717643)
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05/2001
BFI Publishing
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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.
