Dawson City: a remote city at the confluence of rivers Klondike and Yokon (Canada), that saw condensed in a very short lapse of time the history of the American myth of the gold rush, but also the evolution of cinematographic industry. Dawson City like a miniaturized creature that help us to understand two crucial phenomena of modernity: the foundation, often violent yet relentless, of capitalist society and cinema, as the expression of a modern sentiment, along with all its material and immaterial contradictions.

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