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Sam Rohdie
Promised Lands [PDF ebook]
Cinema, Geography, Modernism

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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.

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Format PDF ● Pages 220 ● ISBN 9781838717650 ● Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing ● Published 2019 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8130616 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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