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Autore: | Smith Jacob |
Titolo: | The Thrill Makers : Celebrity, Masculinity, and Stunt Performance / / Jacob Smith |
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 |
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