Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. List of Figures viii
5. Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER 1 Radical Cinema 17
7. CHAPTER 2 Mass Observing: The 1930s Documentary Gaze 63
8. CHAPTER 3 The Documentary Movement and Mass Leisure, 1930−1945 98
9. CHAPTER 4 Camera Consciousn 122
10. CHAPTER 5 Framing History: Virginia Woolf and the Politicisation of Aesthetics 155
11. CHAPTER 6 ‘The savage and austere light of a burning world’: The Cinematic Blitz 193
12. Afterword 232
13. Endnotes 237
14. Bibliography 272
15. Index 285