Documentary Performance and Risk
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<p><em>Documentary, Performance and Risk</em> explores how some of the most significant recent American feature documentaries use performance to dramatically animate major categories of risk. </p><p>The fact that these documentaries do rely on such performance is revealing both in terms of trends in American feature documentary, and in relation to the currency of ideas about risk in contemporary Western societies. The book takes a detailed look at the performance of risk and demonstrates the rewards of close critical attention to formal composition and performance. Covering <em>An Inconvenient Truth</em>,<em> Super Size Me</em>,<em> Capitalism: A Love Story</em> and <i>Jackass: The Movie</i>, it explores how these high-profile films offer up compelling narratives and images of individuals ‘acting on risk’. The films seek to both confront and control the contours of their environments in ways that reveal much about how a particular set of beliefs about risk and the individual have come to inform our lives.</p><p>This wide-ranging analysis of feature documentary is ideal for scholars and postgraduate students studying documentary film, film and media studies.</p> <p>Introduction</p><p>Chapter One: Theorising documentary, performance, and risk.</p><p>Chapter Two: ‘Mr. Earth’: embodying environmental risk in <i>An Inconvenient Truth.</i></p><p>Chapter Three: ‘The Risk of Obesity’: <i>Super Size Me </i>and the performance of biopedagogy.<b> </b></p><p>Chapter Four: ‘Skin in the Game’: financial risk and <i>Capitalism: A Love Story.</i></p><p>Chapter Five: ‘Warning: this film contains nuts’: <i>Jackass </i>and the performance of everyday risk.</p><p>Afterword </p>
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