Age of the Image: Power Games

Art historian James Fox explores how mass communication and new technology helped 20th-century image-makers transform society, as films, photographs, TV, art and advertising all became weapons in the ideological battles of the age. He reveals how actress Marlene Dietrich and director Leni Riefenstahl each used cinema to pursue very different visions of power and freedom, and how Jewish comic book artists in New York created superheroes as their act of resistance to the Nazi threat