Documentary, Performance and Risk

by James Lyons

Book Overview

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

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138852139
• ISBN13: 9781138852136
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"