Displaced vision : the politics of realism in Kracauer and Kluge -- The rhetoric of madness in realist film theory -- Phenomenology, theology and 'physical reality' : the film theory realism of Siegfried Kracauer -- 'Montage, my fine care' : realism, surrealism and postmodernism after Bazin -- Multiple indexicality and multiple realism in Andre Bazin -- André Bazin, or the ambiguity of reality -- Realism is to think historically : overlapping elements in Lukácsian and Brechtian theories of realism -- The moving-image redemption of orality and Lukács's early writing on the cinema -- The 'naturalist' treatment in The specificity of the aesthetics (Georg Lukács, 1963) and One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1962; Caspar Wrede, 1970) -- The documentary version of film history -- The Grierson testament, 1969-71 -- John Grierson : from the poster movement to the international state