Contents
Acknowledgments
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)
Contributors
Index