Film and risk

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Hjort, Mette
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2012.
Series:Contemporary approaches to film and television series.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the film phenomenon and how risk pervades it / Mette Hjort
  • Flamboyant risk taking: why some filmmakers embrace avoidable and excessive risks / Mette Hjort
  • True stories of risk inadvertence / Trevor Ponech
  • Spectatorship and risk / Paisley Livingston
  • Stunt workers and spectacle: ethnography of physical risk in Hollywood and Hong Kong / Sylvia J. Martin
  • The canary in the Gemeinschaft? disability, film, and the Jewish Question / Faye Ginsburg
  • Accented filmmaking and risk taking in the age of postcolonial militancy, terrorism, globalization, wars, oppression, and occupation / Hamid Naficy
  • Multinational casts and epistemic risk: the case of Pan-Asian cinema / Jinhee Choi
  • The financial and economic risks of film production / Michael Pokorny and John Sedgwick
  • Motion picture finance and risk in the United States / Bill Grantham
  • Encouraging artistic risk taking through film policy: the case of new Danish screen / Eva Novrup Redvall
  • After the decisive moment: moving beyond photojournalism's high-risk mode / Michelle L. Woodward
  • Chance and change / Rod Stoneman
  • Film and the environment: risk offscreen / Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller.