Making and Meaning: The Role of the Producer in British Films

Abstract

Many academics today assume that the role of the producer is essentially administrative. However, the producer’s role has been, and often still is, creative as well as administrative. The opportunity, which this conference offers, to study the role of the producer, allows film historians the opportunity to get away from the tired sixty-year-old polemics of the politique des auteurs, which the young critics of Cahiers du Cinema developed to justify their admiration of the American cinema. In short it presents an opportunity to move beyond the study of the film text as watched in the cinema to a study of the relationships between the film text and the context of its production. I want to begin, by reflecting, albeit briefly, on the meaning of the term creative.

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