Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgements v
4. Notes on the Text vii
5. Figures ix
6. Introduction 1
7. Part 1 Brechtian Film Theory
8. Chapter 1 Key Concepts 11
9. Chapter 2 Photography and Film 44
10. Chapter 3 Modernism as Realism 63
11. Chapter 4 Brecht in Film Theory 83
12. Part 2 Brechtian Cinema
13. The Revisionist History Film
14. Chapter 5 Re-visioning History 109
15. Chapter 6 Revisiting National Traumas 128
16. The Essay Film
17. Chapter 7 Beyond Auteurism: the Dialectics of the Essay Film 149
18. Chapter 8 Pedagogical Essay Films 168
19. Cinemas of Cruelty
20. Chapter 9 Brecht and Artaud 187
21. Chapter 10 Cruelty as Anti-commodity 205
22. Epilogue 225
23. Bibliography 235
24. Index 252