Film and risk
Film and risk [electronic resource] /
edited by Mette Hjort.
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2012.
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Contemporary approaches to film and media series .
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780814336113
Motion picture industry--Finance.
Motion picture industry--Economic aspects.
Motion pictures--Production and direction.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.P7F45 2012
384/.80681
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780814336113
Motion picture industry--Finance.
Motion picture industry--Economic aspects.
Motion pictures--Production and direction.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.P7F45 2012
384/.80681