Table of Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction - Andrew Spicer, A.T. McKenna and Christopher Meir Part I - Theoretical and Historical Contexts 2. Joe Kember, University of Exeter, UK, A Judge of Anything and Everything: Charles Urban and the Role of the Producer-Collaborator in Early British Film 3. Audun Engelstad and Jo Sondre Moseng, Lillehammer University College, Norway, Mapping a Typology of the Film Producer - Or, Six Producers in Search of an Author 4. Andrew Spicer, University of the West of England, UK, The Independent Producer and the State: Simon Relph, Government Policy and the British Film Industry, 1980-2005 5. Paul Long, Birmingham City University, UK and Simon Spink, UK, Producing the Self: The Film Producer's Labor and Professional Identity in the UK Creative Economy 6. Pauline Small, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, Producer and Director? Or, Authorship in 1950s Italian Cinema 7. Mark David Ryan, Ben Goldsmith, and Stuart Cunningham, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and Deb Verhoeven, Deakin University, Australia, The Australian Screen Producer in Transition Part II - Media and Genre Contexts 8. Donna Kornhaber, University of Texas at Austin, USA, The Producer in Animation: Creativity and Commerce from Bray Studios to Pixar 9. Brett Mills and Sarah Ralph, University of East Anglia, UK, Trying to Ride a Naughty Horse: British Television Comedy Producers 10. Sonia Friel, Norwich University of the Arts, UK, Keith Griffiths' Poetics of Production 11. James Lyons, University of Exeter, UK, The American Independent Producer and the Film Value Chain Part III - National and Transnational Contexts 12. Constanza Burucua, Western University, Canada, Lita Stantic: Auteur Producer/Producer of Auteurs 13. A.T. McKenna, University of Nottingham, China, Beyond National Humiliation: Han Sanping and China's Post-Olympics Historical Event Blockbusters 14. Gertjan Willems, Ghent University, Belgium, The Producer in Belgian Cinema(s): The Case of Jean (and Jan) Van Raemdonck 15. Christopher Meir, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, Post-Imperial Co-Producers: Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Contemporary Anglo-Australian Cinema
