Popular front Paris and the poetics of culture

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.