Lost_Continent_(1954_film)

<i>Lost Continent</i> (1955 film)

Lost Continent (1955 film)

1955 Italian film

Continente Perduto (a.k.a. Lost Continent and Continent Perdu) is a 1955 Italian documentary film about Maritime Southeast Asia including Borneo.

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Awards

It has received the following awards:

Legacy

French literary critic Roland Barthes dedicates an essay to the film in his semiological work, Mythologies. He criticizes the filmmakers as perpetuating a European sense of exoticism, while also imposing their own Christian values onto the Buddhist traditions of the region.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Festival de Cannes: Lost Continent". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
  2. [2]
    "BFI: Lost Continent". BFI. Archived from the original on 2009-01-14. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
  3. [3]
    "5th Berlin International Film Festival: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2009-12-24.
  4. [4]
    Barthes, Roland, and Annette Lavers. "The Lost Continent." Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972. 94-96. Print.


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