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[ecrea] Conference, Creative Accounting - British Producers, British Screens

Tue Nov 30 14:50:38 GMT 2010




Creative Accounting: British Producers, British Screens
Two day conference, University of the West of England (Bristol), UK
19-20 April 2011 (Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol)
Deadline for proposals: 31 December 2010
?Even the title of ?producer? has become diluted, where not denigrated. And the producer?s ?personal touch? is largely missing in films of late?. (Michael Klinger, 1972) The role of the producer has historically been sidelined, or even ignored, by Film Studies. When not ignored, the producer is often unfairly characterised as a brutish philistine interfering in the creative process, concerned only with the bottom line. Indeed, one could argue that even such an unflattering stereotype finds its source in American popular culture, demonstrating how ill-defined the British producer is. This proposed two day conference will seek to investigate the role of the British screen producer. It is organised by Andrew Spicer and Anthony McKenna as part of an AHRC-funded Research Project investigating the career of Michael Klinger (1960-1985). The two-year project sits within the Faculty of Creative Arts, University of the West of England, and is supported by the project partners: School of Creative Arts, Film and Media, University of Portsmouth. The conference will work with a broad definition of ?British? in order to encompass British producers working outside the British industry, and overseas producers working in the British industry. Similarly, contributors will not be restricted to cinema, but encouraged to discuss the producer?s role in television and new media. The overarching aim will be to re-examine concepts of agency within Screen Studies that have hitherto over-privileged the role of the director.
Papers addressing, but not restricted to, the following topics are welcome:

·                The British producer and national cinema

·         The creative role of the producer

·         The auteur producer

·         The studio (contract) producer

·         The executive producer

·         The independent/entrepreneurial producer

·         The international British producer

·         The genre producer

·         The television series producer

·         The documentary producer

·         The producer?s role in New Media/digital cinema

·         The micro budget producer

·         Theorising the producer

· Research methodologies (including the role of archives and archival research) The intention is to publish a selection of the papers in an edited collection. Abstracts ? no more than 250 words ? along with contact details and institutional affiliation, should be sent to <mailto:(britishproducers /at/ gmail.com)>(britishproducers /at/ gmail.com).

Andrew Spicer
Reader in Cultural History, UWE
(Andrew2.Spicer /at/ uwe.ac.uk)


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