Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-436) and index.
Contents
The poetics of culture and the harmonies of history -- A page in history: Resnais' Stavisky...and the 1930s -- I: Street work -- February 6, 1934. and the press of direct action -- Céline and Malraux: the literature of discontent -- Esprit in the arena of extremist politics -- Jean Renoir's La Marseillaise: the arc of revolution -- II: Atmospheres -- Daily life in the city -- Popular entertainment and the decay of intimacy -- The look of Paris in the age of art deco -- The lower depths: picturing the Quartier Populaire -- Imagining the colonies -- Turbulence in the atmosphere -- Conclusion as forecast.
