Film and Risk

Index

295 index Aaberg Kærn, Simone, 41, 45–48, 46, 50, 52 Aakeson, Kim Fupz, 217, 219 Abdelhadi Nasser, Feda, 150 accented cinema, foreignness detected in, 173 accented filmmaking, ethics and risks of, 148–49, 151–54 access to knowledge, and risk perception , 167 accuracy, epistemic risk differentiated from, 167 acetic acid, and cellulose acetate film, 278 Acta general de Chile (Littín), 151–54 Actas de Marusia (Littín), 151 action, meaning of term, 57 actors, and risk, 6–8 Aeolian harps, 247 aesthetics, traditional, ideal critic in, 170 Afghanistan, 11–12, 232, 236 Afman, Frans, 201 agential concept of risk, 57–61 agent rationality, motivated breakdown of, 66 AGFA film stock, 279–80 Ah Kam (Hui), 100 Ahmadshah, Khwaja, 11–12 air polluters, corporate, 281 Ai Xiaoming, 51 alcohol, in raw film manufacturing, 278 Al-Erhayem, Anja, 9 Allamehzadeh, Reza, 159 Allende Gossens, Salvador, 151, 157 Alsino and the Condor (Littín), 151 Altman, Anita, 130 ambiguity, in art cinema, 176 ambivalence, intentional, 90–91 Among Grizzlies (Treadwell and Palovak), 71n. 17 analog vs. digital debates, 283 Anger, Kenneth, 251 Ang Lee, 168 An Gobán Saor (film), 259 aptness of situation, meaning of phrase, 59 architect model, in Danish cultural policy, 210, 224n. 5 archival footage and photographs: appropriating for new purposes, 119–21, 142–43n. 57; Herzog’s use of, 65; of Mengele’s experiments, 122–23; repositioning through idioms of kinship and human rights, 134 Ariç, Nezamettin, 145, 153 Note: Italicized page numbers refer to illustrations and their captions. 296 Index Armenia, risks of filming in, 145 arm’s-length principle, in Danish cultural policy, 210 art, categories of, 170–71, 176 art and culture, as instruments of noncultural aims, 211 art cinema: ambiguity in, 176; and multinational casting, 165; psychological and moral perils in, 73 art-commerce divide, 209 artistic freedom, in Nordic cultural model, 210 artistic homelessness, 150–51 artistic risk taking: in financial framework for filmmaking, 209; importance of trust, 215–16; NDS support for, 209–11, 213–15, 223; risk-aversive tendencies of film industry and, 14 artistic tradeoffs: in indicating risks taken by fictional characters, 83– 84; in Sabbath Vision, 90–91 Ascheid, Antje, 175 Ashkenazi Jews, 118, 124, 130, 137n. 13 Asia, mythic, 170–78 Asian coproductions: and categories of art, 171; epistemic and aesthetic risks resulting from, 166–68, 176; in pan-Asian cinema, 169; within regional industry, 177; as trend, 165 assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), 117 Athanasiadis, Iason, 233–34, 237 At Night (Christiansen), 221 audiences. See film consumers; spectators Auschwitz-Berkenau infirmary, 122–23 authenticity, epistemic risk differentiated from, 167 avoidable risks, meaning of term, 39 banks, and film financing, 201–3, 205–6 Banks, Mark, 216 Banned series (Channel 4), 252 The Battle of Chile (Guzmán), 157 Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein), 79 Bazin, André, 276 The Beach (Boyle), 272 bearing witness, in photojournalism ethic, 229–30, 233–34 Beat the Devil (Huston), 249, 250 Beck, Ulrich, 35–36, 59–60, 166–67, 273, 283 behind-the-scenes footage, in The Myth, 175 Bejmar, Magnus, 45–48, 50, 52 Bellocchio, Marco, 85–91 Bendelack, Steve, 32 Bergman, Ingmar, 75 Bergman, Ingrid, 249 Berlinger, Joe, 120–21 Berlin Horse (LeGrice), 247, 248 Bernstein, Peter L., 1–2 Best Boy (Wohl), 136n. 3 Bie, Claus, 48 biology, second age of, 117 Blake, William, 266 Blocked project (Visser), 239–40, 240 Blue (Jarman), 257 Boe, Christoffer, 221, 221 Bogart, Humphrey, 249 border filmmaking, 144–51 Bord Scannán na hÉireann (Irish Film Board), 257–61 Bordwell, David, 8–9, 222 Bouyeri, Mohammed, 160 Boyes, Roger, 15–16 Boyle, Danny, 272 brand-based properties, 262 Breath (Kim Ki-duk), 169, 177 Breton, André, 267n. 2 The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Duchamp), 246–47 British television, Channel 4, 251–57 Index 297 Bro, Nicholas, 221 Brophy, Philip, 253 Brown, Rosena, 256, 268n. 25 budgetary restrictions: as constructive creative constraint, 216–17, 219–20; stunt doubles and, 102, 110 Buñuel, Luis, 150–51 Burch, Noel, 248 Burma VJ, 17–18 Burmese video activists, documentary portrait of, 17–18 Business Week, 280 byssinosis (brown lung), 279 Cage, John, 247 calculated risks, creating space for, 266 Cameron, James, 272 camphor, in raw film manufacturing, 278, 280 Cannes Film Festival, 144, 149–50 Capa, Cornell, 229 Capa, Robert, 228, 229 capitalist industries, risk-taking practices , 97–99, 105–6 Capote, Truman, 249 carbon footprints...