Location shooting in “the Wild East”: risk and masculinity in Hollywood productions in the Philippines
2017; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 17; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/14680777.2017.1313290
ISSN1471-5902
Autores Tópico(s)Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
ResumoThis essay argues that risk has become a crucial part of Hollywood’s transnational media productions, revealing these productions’ links to various forms of masculinity. Entailing the deliberate confrontation of uncertainty, the concept of risk connotes rational decision-making, territorial exploration, economic investment, and, more implicitly, the kinds of masculinities associated with these practices. As such, risk becomes a means of understanding how the older forms of white masculinity associated with empire map onto newer geopolitical contexts, gendering production narratives that seek to mythologize filmmakers as auteurs, businessmen, and danger-seekers. Focusing on American productions in the Philippines, the essay examines risk and white masculinity in three cases of filmmaking: 1970s exploitation cinema commemorated in Machete Maidens Unleashed!; Apocalypse Now and Coppola’s subsequent tourism ventures; and the blockbuster The Bourne Legacy.
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