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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Birkbeck College
Project the legend: la représentation du producteur comme personnage dans l’histoire du cinéma
This essay explores the diverse ways in which the figure of the film producer has been represented in film history, focusing especially on audiovisual representations of that figure in USA-produced feature films. Three types of representation are considered: the producer as a purely fictional creation, e.g. Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beautiful or Robert Aldrich’s The Big Knife; the representation of the producer based on a “real-life” model, e.g. Irving Thalberg in Elia Kazan’s The Last Tycoon; and finally the “self-representation” of the producer in the case of Robert Evans and The Kid Stays in the Picture.