Film and risk
By: edited by Mette Hjort
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and media series
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780814334638; 9780814336113
Subjects: Motion pictures; Production and direction; Economic aspects; Finance; Motion picture industry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the film phenomenon and how risk pervades it / Mette Hjort; title: Flamboyant risk taking: why some filmmakers embrace avoidable and excessive risks / Mette Hjort; title: True stories of risk inadvertence / Trevor Ponech; title: Spectatorship and risk / Paisley Livingston; title: Stunt workers and spectacle: ethnography of physical risk in Hollywood and Hong Kong / Sylvia J. Martin; title: The canary in the Gemeinschaft? disability, film, and the Jewish Question / Faye Ginsburg; title: Accented filmmaking and risk taking in the age of postcolonial militancy, terrorism, globalization, wars, oppression, and occupation / Hamid Naficy; title: Multinational casts and epistemic risk: the case of Pan-Asian cinema / Jinhee Choi; title: The financial and economic risks of film production / Michael Pokorny and John Sedgwick; title: Motion picture finance and risk in the United States / Bill Grantham; title: Encouraging artistic risk taking through film policy: the case of new Danish screen / Eva Novrup Redvall; title: After the decisive moment: moving beyond photojournalism's high-risk mode / Michelle L. Woodward; title: Chance and change / Rod Stoneman; title: Film and the environment: risk offscreen / Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller.