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[ecrea] Re: Accounting for Creativity: British Producers, British Screens

Tue Mar 01 17:18:05 GMT 2011



Accounting for Creativity: British Producers, British Screens

Two-Day Conference organised by Andrew Spicer and Anthony McKenna

Faculty of Creative Arts, Humanities and Education, University of the West of England

Date: Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 April 2011

Venue: Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

"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 two day conference will seek to investigate the role of the British screen producer and forms part of an AHRC-funded Research Project investigating the career of Michael Klinger (1960-1985). 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. In the main, speakers will be discussing the producer's role in cinema, but there are also papers on the television, music and new media industries. The overarching aim will be to re-examine concepts of agency within Screen Studies that have hitherto over-privileged the role of the director.

To view the conference schedule, speakers' abstracts and keynote papers please use the link below:

<http://www.uwe.ac.uk/sca/research/vcrg/abstracts.htm>http://www.uwe.ac.uk/sca/research/vcrg/abstracts.htm

To book a place at the conference, please use the following link:

<https://store.uwe.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=851&modid=1&compid=1>https://store.uwe.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=851&modid=1&compid=1



If you have a question or enquiry please e-mail: (Anthony.McKenna /at/ uwe.ac.uk)



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