[ecrea] New publication on Producers

Beyond the Bottom Line: The Producer in Film and Television Studies

Edited by Andrew Spicer, Anthony McKenna & Christopher Meir

Bloomsbury Academic



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.



Contents

1 Introduction; Andrew Spicer, A.T. McKenna and Christopher Meir


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; Joe Kember

3 Mapping a Typology of the Film Producer – Or, Six Producers in Search 
of an Author; Audun Engelstad and Jo Sondre Moseng

4 The Independent Producer and the State: Simon Relph, Government Policy 
and the British Film Industry, 1980–2005; Andrew Spicer

5 Producing the Self: The Film Producer’s Labour and Professional 
Identity in the UK Creative Economy; Paul Long and Simon Spink

6 Producer and Director? Or, ‘Authorship’ in 1950s Italian Cinema; 
Pauline Small

7 The Australian Screen Producer in Transition; Mark David Ryan, Ben 
Goldsmith, Stuart Cunningham and Deb Verhoeven



Part Two Media and Genre Contexts

8 The Producer in Animation: Creativity and Commerce from Bray Studios 
to Pixar; Donna Kornhaber

9 ‘Trying to Ride a Naughty Horse’: British Television Comedy Producers; 
Brett Mills and Sarah Ralph

10 Keith Griffiths’ Poetics of Production; Sonia Friel

11 The American Independent Producer and the Film Value Chain; James Lyons



Part Three National and Transnational Contexts

12 Lita Stantic: Auteur Producer/Producer of Auteurs; Constanza Burucúa

13 Beyond National Humiliation: Han Sanping and China’s Post-Olympics 
Historical Event Blockbusters; A. T. McKenna

14 The Producer and Belgian Cinema(s): The Case of Jean (and Jan) Van 
Raemdonck Gertjan Willems

15 Post-Imperial Co-Producers: Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and 
Contemporary Anglo-Australian Cinema; Christopher Meir


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