James Lyons

Documentary, Performance and Risk

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Produktbeschreibung

Documentary, Performance and Risk explores how some of the most significant recent American feature documentaries use performance to dramatically animate major categories of risk.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9781138852129
• ISBN-10: 1138852120
• Artikelnr.: 57733498

Autorenporträt

James Lyons is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of Selling Seattle (2004) and Miami Vice (2010) and co-editor of Quality Popular Television (2003), Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet (2007), and The Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and Contexts (2010). He also co-designed and co-produced the documentary The Risk Taker's Survival Guide (2014), which won the Ramillas Interactive Award at Sheffield International Doc/Fest.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: Theorising documentary, performance, and risk.
Chapter Two: 'Mr. Earth': embodying environmental risk in An Inconvenient
Truth.
Chapter Three: 'The Risk of Obesity': Super Size Me and the performance of
biopedagogy.
Chapter Four: 'Skin in the Game': financial risk and Capitalism: A Love
Story.
Chapter Five: 'Warning: this film contains nuts': Jackass and the
performance of everyday risk.
Afterword