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)
