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  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Primal Scenes and Establishing Shots; 1 A First Wave: Documentary Paris in the Shadow of the Talkies; Somewhere Else: Georges Lacombe and La Zone (1928); The Ambiguities of Pure Cinema; Paris by Night: Les Halles centrales (Boris Kaufman, 1928); 2 Visualizing Paris Anew; Moving In, Moving Out: Andre Sauvage and Études sur Paris (1928); In Thrall to the Silent Image; Sunday in the Country: Marcel Carne and Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche (1929); Through the Window; Transition I: Networking, 1929-1930; 3 "All the World's Misery."
  • The End of the WorldA Kick in the Pants to Open Our Eyes: À propos de Nice (Jean Vigo, 1930); Sweet Children of Misery: Aubervilliers (Eli Lotar, 1946); The Slaughterhouse Photos; Transition II: Popular Front-Vichy-Postwar; 4 Colonial Cinema and Its Discontents; Making Waves: Afrique 50 (Rene Vautier, 1950); "We Martians of Africa": Les Statues meurent aussi (Alain Resnais and Chris Marker, 1953); Whose Voice? Whose Film? Moi, un Noir (Jean Rouch, 1958); Transition III: The Group of Thirty; 5 Two Takes on Postwar Paris; Scenes in a Library: Toute la memoire du monde (Alain Resnais, 1956).
  • Other Scenes in a LibraryParis Springtime Zero: Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker, 1963); A Hard Left; Afterthoughts: A Radical Lyricism; Acknowledgments; Appendix A. Declaration of the Group of Thirty; Appendix B. Quality Subsidy Study: Short-Subject Advantages; Notes; Filmography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.