Beyond the bottom line: the producer in film and television studies

Collection of essays, edited by Andrew Spicer, A. T. McKenna and Christopher Meir, which focus on the role of the film producer from various perspectives. Contents - 1 'Introduction' by 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' by Joe Kember; 3 'Mapping a Typology of the Film Producer - Or, Six Producers in Search of an Author' by Audun Engelstad and Jo Sondre Moseng; 4 'The Independent Producer and the State: Simon Relph, Government Policy and the British Film Industry, 1980-2005' by Andrew Spicer; 5 'Producing the Self: The Film Producer's Labour and Professional Identity in the UK Creative Economy' by Paul Long and Simon Spink; 6 'Producer and Director? Or, "Authorship" in 1950s Italian Cinema' by Pauline Small; 7 'The Australian Screen Producer in Transition' by 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' by Donna Kornhaber; 9 '"Trying to Ride a Naughty Horse": British Television Comedy Producers' by Brett Mills and Sarah Ralph; 10 'Keith Griffiths' Poetics of Production' by Sonia Friel; 11 'The American Independent Producer and the Film Value Chain' by James Lyons. Part Three: National and Transnational Contexts - 12 'Lita Stantic: Auteur Producer / Producer of Auteurs' by Constanza Burucua; 13 'Beyond National Humiliation: Han Sanping and China's Post-Olympics Historical Event Blockbusters' by A. T. McKenna; 14 'The Producer and Belgian Cinema(s): The Case of Jean (and Jan) Van Raemdonck' by Gertjan Willems; 15 'Post-Imperial Co-Producers: Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Contemporary Anglo-Australian Cinema' by Christopher Meir.