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The Thrill Makers - Celebrity, Masculinity, and Stunt Performance (Paperback)
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The Thrill Makers - Celebrity, Masculinity, and Stunt Performance (Paperback)
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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.
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