News parade: the American newsreel and the world as spectacle

Introduction. "History of the most graphic and thrilling sort" : the history of the newsreel, the newsreel as history

News parade : the logic of the newsreel system

Newsreel realism : redefining the real in motion picture news

"Heroes of the lens" : newsreel cameramen, the Sino-Japanese War, and looking as action

"Come along. We're going to the Trans-Lux to hiss Roosevelt" : modernity, virtual travel and the newsreel cinema as public forum

Double vision : World War Two, racial uplift, and politics of visibility in the all-American newsreel

Conclusion. News parade's gone by?