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 FROM THE PUBLISHER
This book is an innovative attempt by a leading film theorist to locate cinema—from 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.
Author Biography: Sam Rohdie is Professor of Film Studies at Queen's University Belfast. He was the 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 a Fellini lexicon.
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