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Subject(s)

• Motion pictures—Production and direction [Browse]
• Motion picture industry—Economic aspects [Browse]
• Motion picture industry—Finance [Browse]

Related name

• Hjort, Mette [Browse]

Series

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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ISBN

• 9780814334638 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0814334636 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780814336113 (e-book)
• 0814336116 (e-book)

LCCN

2011030705

OCLC

744977414

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