American modernism and depression documentary

Introduction: Plausible fictions of the real

From 'culture' to 'cultural work': literature and labor between the wars

The road to somewhere: locating knowledge in Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White's You have seen their faces (1937)

Moving violations: stasis and mobility in James Agee's and Walker Evans's Let us now praise famous men (1941)

From eye to we: Richard Wright's 12 million black voices, documentary, and pedagogy

'We Americans': Henry Luce, life, and the mind-guided camera

Epilogue: depression documentary and the knot of history.