Film and risk / edited by Mette Hjort.
| Other author | Hjort, Mette. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Detroit : Wayne State University Press, |
| Description | ix, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Contemporary approaches to film and media series |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011030705 |
| ISBN | 9780814334638 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780814336113 (e-book) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |