Promised lands : cinema, geography, modernism /

Rohdie, Sam, 1939-

Promised lands : cinema, geography, modernism / Sam Rohdie - London : bfi Publihing, 2001 - viii, 280 p. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book attempts to locate cinema alongside philosophy, painting, geography & travel in terms of a history of modernism. It focuses on a collection of geographical & ethnographic films & photographs amassed by banker Albert Kahn in the 1900s.

9780851708539 9780851708539 £15.99


Motion pictures--History
Film criticism
Modernism (Art)
Film history, theory & criticism
Cultural studies