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Creativity and commerce: Michael Klinger and new film history

Spicer, Andrew H.

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The crisis in film studies and history concerning their legitimacy and objectives has provoked a reinvigoration of scholarly energy in historical enquiry. 'New film history' attempts to address the concerns of historians and film scholars by working self-reflexively with an expanded range of sources and a wider conception of 'film' as a dynamic set of processes rather than a series of texts. The practice of new film history is here exemplified through a detailed case study of the independent British producer Michael Klinger (active 1961-87) with a specific focus on his unsuccessful attempt to produce a war film, Green Beach, based on a memoir of the Dieppe raid (August 1942). This case study demonstrates the importance of analysing the producer's role in understanding the complexities of film-making, the continual struggle to balance the competing demands of creativity and commerce. In addition, its subject matter - an undercover raid and a Jewish hero - disturbed the dominant myths concerning the Second World War, creating what turned out to be intractable ideological as well as financial problems. The paper concludes that the concerns of film historians need to engage with broader cultural and social histories. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.

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Spicer, A. H. (2010). Creativity and commerce: Michael Klinger and new film history. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 8(3), 297-314. https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2010.499771

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Sep 1, 2010
Deposit Date Jul 14, 2010
Publicly Available Date Nov 15, 2016
Journal New Review of Film and Television Studies
Print ISSN 1740-0309
Electronic ISSN 1740-7923
Publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 8
Issue 3
Pages 297-314
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2010.499771
Keywords film history, film producer, Michael Klinger
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/975883
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2010.499771
Additional Information Additional Information : This is an electronic version of an article published in "Spicer, A. (2010) Creativity and commerce: Michael Klinger and new film history. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 8 (3). pp. 297-314." New Review of Film and Television Studies is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17400309.2010.499771.

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