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Promised Lands: Cinema, Geography, Modernism

By Sam Rohdie

Book information

Publisher
British Film Institute
Year
2001
ISBN
0851708536, 9780851708539
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
26 MB (27518200 bytes)
Pages
220\289
Time added
2021-07-17 14:24:11

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. Contents Preface Introduction 1. Italy 2. Boulogne-Billancourt/Delft 3. Tahiti 4. Naples/Calabria/Jerusalem 5. Cracow/Pesaro/Xanadu 6. Roma/Stromboli 7. Portraits 8. Xanadu 9. Interlude 10. Dahomey (1) 11. Dahomey (2) 12. Dahomey (3) 13. Congo 14. The Promised Land 15. Of Exactitude in Science Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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