Promised Lands: Cinema, Geography, Modernism

By Sam Rohdie

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851708536
• ISBN13: 9780851708539
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"