[ecrea] Call for Papers - Creative Accounting: British Producers, British Screens conference, 19-20 April 2011

>Creative Accounting: British Producers, British Screens
>Two day conference, University of the West of England (Bristol), UK
>19-20 April 2011
>Deadline for proposals: 30 November 2010
>
>Even the title of producer has become 
>diluted, where not denigrated. And the producers
>  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, 
>thereby 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 producers 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 producers 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 (britishproducers /at/ gmail.com).
>

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
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