Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Birkbeck College
Chapter title
Project the legend: la représentation du producteur comme personnage dans l’histoire du cinéma
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Nouveau monde
Book title
Les producteurs: Enjeux créatifs, enjeux financiers
ISBN of book
9782847366075
Year of publication
2011
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
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.
