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Stunt performers in action
Give readers an inside look at the dangerous job of stunt performers. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, a phonetic glossary, an index, a selected bibliography, an introduction to the author, and sources for further research.
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The thrill makers
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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The medicine of…film and television
[...]for the past 10 years he has also worked as an advisor for several UK television shows, including the long-running drama Eastenders, helping ensure that storylines involving injury, illness, and health care are responsible and, for the most part, realistic. Alongside trying to get the medicine depicted on screen to look right for viewers, there is actual medical care going on behind the scenes on set. Is there anyone with an allergy or an illness or another condition you should be aware of?” Waller's background is in emergency medicine, but her work on film and television productions is much closer to community health. [...]the producers might say ‘if you feel this person needs to go to hospital immediately, then they are going to hospital immediately, but we would like to explore whether they can stick around for long enough for us to capture the footage that we need’.”
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Stunts
\"Engaging images accompany information about stunts. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Metacognitive errors in the classroom: The role of variability of past performance on exam prediction accuracy
Students often make incorrect predictions about their exam performance, with the lowest-performing students showing the greatest inaccuracies in their predictions. The reasons why low-performing students make inaccurate predictions are not fully understood. In two studies, we tested the hypothesis that low-performing students erroneously predict their exam performance in part because their past performance varies considerably, yielding unreliable data from which to make their predictions. In contrast, high-performing students tend to have consistently high past performance that they can rely on to make relatively accurate predictions of future test performance. Results showed that across different exams (Study 1) and different courses (Study 2), low-performing students had more variable past performance than high-performing students. Further, results from Study 2 showed that variability in past course performance (but not past exam performance) was associated with poor calibration. Results suggest that variability in past performance may be one factor that contributes to low-performing students’ erroneous performance predictions.
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Circus Life
The nineteenth century saw the American circus move from a reviled
and rejected form of entertainment to the \"Greatest Show on Earth.\"
Circus Life by Micah D. Childress looks at this transition
from the perspective of the people who owned and worked in circuses
and how they responded to the new incentives that rapid
industrialization made possible. The circus has long been a subject
of fascination for many, as evidenced by the millions of Americans
that have attended circus performances over many decades since
1870, when the circus established itself as a truly unique
entertainment enterprise. Yet the few analyses of the circus that
do exist have only examined the circus as its own closed
microcosm-the \"circus family.\" Circus Life, on the other
hand, places circus employees in the larger context of the history
of US workers and corporate America. Focusing on the circus as a
business-entertainment venture, Childress pushes the scholarship on
circuses to new depths, examining the performers, managers, and
laborers' lives and how the circus evolved as it grew in popularity
over time. Beginning with circuses in the antebellum era, Childress
examines changes in circuses as gender balances shifted,
industrialization influenced the nature of shows, and customers and
crowds became increasingly more middle-class. As a study in sport
and social history, Childress's account demonstrates how the
itinerant nature of the circus drew specific types of workers and
performers, and how the circus was internally in constant upheaval
due to the changing profile of its patrons and a changing economy.
MICAH D. CHILDRESS received his PhD in history
from Purdue University and currently works as a Realtor® in Grand
Rapids, Michigan. His articles have appeared in Popular
Entertainment Studies and American Studies.
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La replique
Ils sont quatre comediens : Lucien, Germaine, Grace et Octave. Lucien a ecrit le texte qu'ils repetent. Mais le theatre est en ruines a la suite d'un tremblement de terre. Ils survivent comme ils peuvent. Ils attendent la replique au milieu des decombres. Ou bien ils jouent. Dans cette situation dramatique, seront-ils un peu vrais ? Mais que signifie le vrai au theatre ?
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