num_pages: 220
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.
language: English
title: Promised Lands: Cinema, Geography, Modernism
titlecomplete: Promised Lands: Cinema, Geography, Modernism
ratings_count: 2
publisher: British Film Institute