Documentary, Performance and Risk

Author:   James Lyons (University of Exeter, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138852136


Pages:   198
Publication Date:   06 September 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   James Lyons (University of Exeter, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9781138852136


ISBN 10:   1138852139
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   06 September 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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

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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.

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