Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Claiming the Real II describes the origins, development and current state of documentary cinema, and the social, political, industrial and ethical factors that determine its production. This new edition addresses the ethical quagmires, digital technologies and proliferating forms that have transformed documentary cinema.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Cinema in the Era of Trouble and Strife
• Part I Popular Genres
• Take an Easy Ride: Sexploitation in the 1970s
• The End of Hammer
• The Divergence and Mutation of British Horror Cinema
• What a Carry On! The Decline and Fall of a Great British Institution
• When the Chickens Came Home to Roost: British Thrillers of the 1970s
• From Amicus to Atlantis: The Lost Worlds of 1970s British Cinema
• Part II Contexts And Styles
• Glam, Spam and Uncle Sam: Funding Diversity in British Film Production during the 1970s
• Now, what are we going to call you? Scum! Scum! Thats commercial! Its all they deserve!: Jubilee, Punk and British Film in the Late 1970s
• Nothing to do Around Here: British Realist Cinema in the 1970s
• Heritage Crime: The Case of Agatha Christie
• Part III Films And Film-Makers
• Folksploitation: Charting the Horrors of the British Folk Music Tradition in The Wicker Man
• Under Siege: The Double Rape of Straw Dogs
• Boyd: The Accidental Producer
• More, Much More Roger Moore: A New Bond for a New Decade
• The BFI and British Independent Cinema in the 1970s
• Select Bibliography
• Index