The Thrill Makers : Celebrity, Masculinity, and Stunt Performance / / Jacob Smith
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| Autore: |
Smith Jacob
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| Titolo: |
The Thrill Makers : Celebrity, Masculinity, and Stunt Performance / / Jacob Smith
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2012] |
| ©2012 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (283 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 306.0973 |
| 791.4302 | |
| 791.43028092 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Daredevils - United States - History |
| Daredevils -- United States -- History | |
| Stunt performers - United States - History | |
| Stunt performers -- United States -- History | |
| Stunt performers -- United States | |
| Stunt performers | |
| Stunt performers - History - United States | |
| Daredevils - History - United States | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | adrenaline junkies |
| adrenaline lovers | |
| base jumping | |
| books about daring stunts | |
| books for young adults | |
| death defying stunts explained | |
| discussion books | |
| easy to read | |
| engaging | |
| evel knievel | |
| fun books to read | |
| history of stunts | |
| history | |
| hollywood | |
| how to be a stunt double | |
| how to do a trick | |
| incredible humans | |
| learning from experts | |
| leisure reads | |
| page turner | |
| popular culture | |
| quarantine books | |
| sky diving | |
| start of media | |
| stunt double history | |
| stunt pilots | |
| thrill makers | |
| vacation reads | |
| x games | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Adventures of the Bridge Jumper -- Chapter 2. The Adventures of the Human Fly -- Chapter 3. The Adventures of the Lion Tamer -- Chapter 4. The Adventures of the Aeronaut -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Well before Evel Knievel or Hollywood stuntmen, reality television or the X Games, North America had a long tradition of stunt performance, of men (and some women) who sought media attention and popular fame with public feats of daring. Many of these feats-jumping off bridges, climbing steeples and buildings, swimming incredible distances, or doing tricks with wild animals-had their basis in the manual trades or in older entertainments like the circus. In The Thrill Makers, Jacob Smith shows how turn-of-the-century bridge jumpers, human flies, lion tamers, and stunt pilots first drew crowds to their spectacular displays of death-defying action before becoming a crucial, yet often invisible, component of Hollywood film stardom. Smith explains how these working-class stunt performers helped shape definitions of American manhood, and pioneered a form of modern media celebrity that now occupies an increasingly prominent place in our contemporary popular culture. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Thrill Makers |
| ISBN: | 1-280-49202-3 |
| 9786613587251 | |
| 0-520-95236-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790285103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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