Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Film Phenomenon and How Risk Pervades It -- Flamboyant Risk Taking: Why Some Filmmakers Embrace Avoidable and Excessive Risks -- True Stories of Risk Inadvertence -- Spectatorship and Risk -- Stunt Workers and Spectacle: Ethnography of Physical Risk in Hollywood and Hong Kong -- The Canary in the Gemeinschaft? Disability, Film, and the Jewish Question -- Accented Filmmaking and Risk Taking in the Age of Postcolonial Militancy, Terrorism, Globalization, Wars, Oppression, and Occupation -- Multinational Casts and Epistemic Risk: The Case of Pan-Asian Cinema -- The Financial and Economic Risks of Film Production -- Motion Picture Finance and Risk in the United States -- Encouraging Artistic Risk Taking through Film Policy: The Case of New Danish Screen -- After the Decisive Moment: Moving beyond Photojournalism's High-Risk Mode -- Chance and Change -- Film and the Environment: Risk Offscreen -- Contributors -- Index.