Introduction
Chapter One: Theorising documentary, performance, and risk.
Chapter Two: ‘Mr. Earth’: embodying environmental risk in An Inconvenient Truth.
Chapter Three: ‘The Risk of Obesity’: Super Size Me and the performance of biopedagogy.
Chapter Four: ‘Skin in the Game’: financial risk and Capitalism: A Love Story.
Chapter Five: ‘Warning: this film contains nuts’: Jackass and the performance of everyday risk.
Afterword
Biography
James Lyons is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of Selling Seattle (2004) and Miami Vice (2010) and co-editor of Quality Popular Television (2003), Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet (2007), and The Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and Contexts (2010). He also co-designed and co-produced the documentary The Risk Taker's Survival Guide (2014), which won the Ramillas Interactive Award at Sheffield International Doc/Fest.
