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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.

Title Promised lands : cinema, geography, modernism / Sam Rohdie.
Publisher London, England : British Film Institute
Creation Date 2001
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages [232]-274) and index.
Extent 1 online resource (194 pages)
Language English
National Library system number 997012489952205171
MARC RECORDS
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