Film and risk / edited by Mette Hjort.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hjort, Mette.

Series:

Contemporary approaches to film and television series.

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture industry--Economic aspects.

Motion picture industry.

Motion picture industry--Finance.

Physical Description:

ix, 311 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An interdisciplinary collection exploring the many ways risk plays a role in film.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814336113

0814336116

OCLC:

794291991