James Lyons

Documentary, Performance and Risk (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

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: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317528852
• Artikelnr.: 57589960

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