Promised Lands: Cinema, Geography, Modernism

Promised Lands: Cinema, Geography, Modernism

Editorial Reviews Book Description This book is an innovative attempt by a leading film theorist to locate cinemafrom the earliest experiments, via the work of Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, Roberto Rossellini, Orson Wells, and many others, to contemporary European art cinema alongside philosophy, painting, geography, and travel in terms of a history of modernism. About the Author Sam Rohdie is Professor of Film Studies at Queen's University, Belfast. Editor of Screen in the 1970s, he is the author of books on Pasolini and Antonioni as well as a study of Rocco and his Brothers in the BFI Film Classics series. He is currently working on a Fellini lexicon.

Promised Lands: Cinema, Geography, Modernism,Sam Rohdie,University of California Press,0851708536,Film & Video - General,Film & Video - Guides & Reviews,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Motion pictures,Performing Arts,Performing Arts/Dance,Philosophy,Pop Arts / Pop Culture

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