Beyond the bottom line [Elektronisk resurs] : the producer in film and television studies / edited by Andrew Spicer, A.T. McKenna, Christopher Meir

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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Unreliable histories and self-made scapegoats -- Media industry studies -- Contributors and contexts -- Notes -- Part One: Theoretical and Historical Contexts -- 2 'A Judge of Anything and Everything': Charles Urban and the Role of the 'Producer-Collaborator' in Early British Film -- The 'producer-artist' and 'producer-collaborator' -- 'One happy family': Producer-collaboration in Urban's British production companies, 1897-1915

Film producers in early British fi lm history -- Notes -- 3 Mapping a Typology of the Film Producer - Or, Six Producers in Search of an Author -- The context of current film production in Norway -- Outlining a producer-oriented approach to adaptation studies -- A brief summary of Norwegian adaptations -- Adaptation as a key to a producer profile -- Business decisions as exercising creativity -- The archetypes: The blockbuster producer and the art cinema producer -- The intermediates -- Nurturing producers -- The accommodating producers

The producer profile grid: Mapping a typology of the film producer -- Notes -- 4 The Independent Producer and the State: Simon Relph, Government Policy and the British Film Industry, 1980-2005 -- Introduction -- Becoming an independent producer: Skreba and Greenpoint -- British Screen: Market stimulation, not subsidy -- The achievements of British Screen -- National Lottery money and the film franchises -- The Film Consortium -- Supporting indigenous production: The Relph Report and trying to establish a studio -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes

5 Producing the Self: The Film Producer's Labour and Professional Identity in the UK Creative Economy -- Introduction -- UK cultural policy and the cultivation of production -- Understanding the producer's role -- Making a living -- Tensions between commerce and creativity in the producer's role -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Producer and Director? Or, 'Authorship' in 1950s Italian Cinema -- The general production context -- Lux: General characteristics and mode of operation -- Titanus: General characteristics and mode of operation -- The making of Senso : Producer and auteur

The making of Rocco and His Brothers : Producer and auteur -- Conclusion -- Archive sources -- Notes -- 7 The Australian Screen Producer in Transition -- Theoretical background -- Surveying the producer -- Emerging themes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part Two: Media and Genre Contexts -- 8 The Producer in Animation: Creativity and Commerce from Bray Studios to Pixar -- 4,000 drawings: Early production processes and the rise of the animation producer -- The producer as author: The Fleischer brothers and Sullivan Studio -- The producer as artist: The development of Disney Studios

The producer as curator: Leon Schlesinger and Warner Bros. Studios

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.