Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Avant-garde Culture and Technological Transformations -- Ch.1:Reframing the Historical Avant-garde - Media, Historiography and Mehtod -- Ch.2: The Dialectics of Self-Conception - Film Avant-garde and Industry Around 1930 -- Ch.3:Strategic Convergence and Functional Differentiation - The Film Societies and Ciné-Clubs of the 1920s and 30s -- Ch.4:Mapping a Totality of Networks, Nodes and Flows - Discourses as Practice -- Ch.5:Vanishing Point Soviet Union - Soviet Cinema and the West between Innovation and Repression -- Ch.6: Melodies Across the Oceans - The Intersection of Documentary and Avant-garde -- Conclusion - Bridging the Gaps, Connecting the Dots -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index of Names -- Index of Film Titles -- Index of Subjects.