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Stuntwomen : The Untold Hollywood Story /
They've traded punches in knockdown brawls, crashed biplanes through barns, and raced to the rescue in fast cars. They add suspense and drama to the story, portraying the swimmer stalked by the menacing shark, the heroine dangling twenty feet below a soaring hot air balloon, or the woman leapin...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : opening shots
- I. The first stuntwomen : 1910-1960
- 1. The rise and fall of female stunt players in silent movies
- 2. Blackface and wigs : men take over stunts
- 3. Television : more stunt work, if you can get it
- II. Taking on the system and fighting for change : 1960s-1980s
- 4. Stunt performers organize
- 5. Social turmoil brings new opportunities for women and minorities
- 6. The Women's Movement and female action heroes
- 7. Disaster movies and disastrous stunts
- 8. Stunt safety and gender discrimination
- 9. Danger, drugs, and death
- 10. Breaking the code of silence
- 11. Women's new attitudes and ambitions
- 12. Julie Johnson's day in court
- III. New professionals in better times : 1990s-2000s
- 13. High falls
- 14. Stunt fights
- 15. Car stunts
- IV. The digital age : 1995-2010
- 16. Computer-generated imagery and the future of stunt work
- 17. Controversy and progress for stuntwomen.