Beyond the bottom line : the producer in film and television studies
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Beyond the bottom line : the producer in film and television studies
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016, c2014
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"First published 2014. Paperback edition first published 2016"--T.p. verso
Includes index
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Description
This is the first collection of original critical essays devoted to exploring the misunderstood, neglected and frequently caricatured role played by the film producer. The editors' introduction provides a conceptual and methodological overview, arguing that the producer's complex and multifaceted role is crucial to a film's success or failure.
The collection is divided into three sections where detailed individual essays explore a broad range of contrasting producers working in different historical, geographical, generic and industrial contexts. Rather than suggest there is a single type of producer, the collection analyses the rich variety of roles producers play, providing fascinating and informative insights into how the film industry actually works. This groundbreaking collection challenges several of the conventional orthodoxies of film studies, providing a new approach that will become required reading for scholars and students.
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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction - Andrew Spicer, A.T. McKenna and Christopher Meir
Part I - Theoretical and Historical Contexts
2. Joe Kember, University of Exeter, UK, "A Judge of Anything and Everything": Charles Urban and the Role of the "Producer-Collaborator" in Early British Film
3. Audun Engelstad and Jo Sondre Moseng, Lillehammer University College, Norway, Mapping a Typology of the Film Producer - Or, Six Producers in Search of an Author
4. Andrew Spicer, University of the West of England, UK, The Independent Producer and the State: Simon Relph, Government Policy and the British Film Industry, 1980-2005
5. Paul Long, Birmingham City University, UK and Simon Spink, UK, Producing the Self: The Film Producer's Labor and Professional Identity in the UK Creative Economy
6. Pauline Small, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, Producer and Director? Or, "Authorship" in 1950s Italian Cinema
7. Mark David Ryan, Ben Goldsmith, and Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and Deb Verhoeven, Deakin University, Australia, The Australian Screen Producer in Transition
Part II - Media and Genre Contexts
8. Donna Kornhaber, University of Texas at Austin, USA, The Producer in Animation: Creativity and Commerce from Bray Studios to Pixar
9. Brett Mills and Sarah Ralph, University of East Anglia, UK, "Trying to Ride a Naughty Horse": British Television Comedy Producers
10. Sonia Friel, Norwich University of the Arts, UK, Keith Griffiths' Poetics of Production
11. James Lyons, University of Exeter, UK, The American Independent Producer and the Film Value Chain
Part III - National and Transnational Contexts
12. Constanza Burucua, Western University, Canada, Lita Stantic: Auteur Producer/Producer of Auteurs
13. A.T. McKenna, University of Nottingham, China, Beyond National Humiliation: Han Sanping and China's Post-Olympics Historical Event Blockbusters
14. Gertjan Willems, Ghent University, Belgium, The Producer in Belgian Cinema(s): The Case of Jean (and Jan) Van Raemdonck
15. Christopher Meir, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, Post-Imperial Co-Producers: Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Contemporary Anglo-Australian Cinema
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