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'Being European': UK production companies and Europe (2018)
Journal Article
Spicer, A. (2019). 'Being European': UK production companies and Europe. Studies in European Cinema, 16(1), 55-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2018.1537107

This article discusses the relationship between UK film producers and Europe, offering a historical overview and an extended case study of an existing company, Number 9 Films. It argues that although UK film production and the attitude of policy make... Read More about 'Being European': UK production companies and Europe.

The European producer: Simon Perry (2018)
Journal Article
Spicer, A. (2018). The European producer: Simon Perry. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 15(4), 589-608. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2018.0444

This is the first detailed interview with Simon Perry, an important independent producer and who was CEO of British Screen from 1991-2000 during which he help to support a range of British films that would otherwise not have been produced. Perry was... Read More about The European producer: Simon Perry.

'It’s our property and our passion’: Managing creativity in a successful company – Aardman Animations (2017)
Book Chapter
Spicer, A. (2017). 'It’s our property and our passion’: Managing creativity in a successful company – Aardman Animations. In E. Bakoy, R. Puijk, & A. H. Spicer (Eds.), Building Successful and Sustainable Film and Television Businesses. Bristol: Intellect

This chapter explores how creativity is managed by Aardman Animations, one of the most successful independent UK film and television companies, whose vision is to forge an artists’ ‘studio’ rather than simply a business. This chapter argues that this... Read More about 'It’s our property and our passion’: Managing creativity in a successful company – Aardman Animations.

The finance and production of independent film and television in the United Kingdom: A critical introduction (2017)
Book Chapter
Presence, S. (2017). The finance and production of independent film and television in the United Kingdom: A critical introduction. In E. Bakoy, R. Puijk, & A. H. Spicer (Eds.), Building Successful and Sustainable Film and Television Businesses: A Cross-National Perspective (247-269). Bristol: Intellect

This chapter provides a critical introduction to the finance and production of independent film and television production in the UK. Film, long considered entertainment rather than art, continues to suffer from low levels of public funding, and the m... Read More about The finance and production of independent film and television in the United Kingdom: A critical introduction.

Building Successful and Sustainable Film and Television Businesses: A Cross-National Perspective (2017)
Book
Bakøy, E., Puijk, R., & Spicer, A. (Eds.). (2017). Building Successful and Sustainable Film and Television Businesses: A Cross-National Perspective. Bristol: Intellect

This edited collection focuses on the production cultures of successful small and medium-sized (SME) film and television companies in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK, based on a three-year research project, ‘Success in the Film and Televi... Read More about Building Successful and Sustainable Film and Television Businesses: A Cross-National Perspective.

Producers and Moguls, 1930-1980 (2017)
Book Chapter
Spicer, A. H. (2017). Producers and Moguls, 1930-1980. In I. Hunter, L. Porter, & J. Smith (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter provides an overview of production practices in the British film industry over a fifty year period. It does this through an analysis of the role of the producer, dividing producers into three broad types: moguls (who owned a studio); A f... Read More about Producers and Moguls, 1930-1980.

Autonomy and dependency in two successful UK film and television companies: An analysis of RED Production Company and Warp Films (2016)
Journal Article
Presence, S., & Spicer, A. H. (2016). Autonomy and dependency in two successful UK film and television companies: An analysis of RED Production Company and Warp Films. Film Studies, 14(1), 5-31. https://doi.org/10.7227/FS.14.0002

This article analyses the production cultures of two film and television companies in the United Kingdom - RED Production and Warp Films - by discussing the companies' formation and identity, aims and ethos, internal structures and their networks of... Read More about Autonomy and dependency in two successful UK film and television companies: An analysis of RED Production Company and Warp Films.

'The general public don’t need to know who we are. We’re building a profile for the industry as a whole’: Inward engagement in the UK film and television industries (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Presence, S., & Spicer, A. H. (2015, March). 'The general public don’t need to know who we are. We’re building a profile for the industry as a whole’: Inward engagement in the UK film and television industries. Paper presented at Media Engagement International Conference, Lund University, Sweden

The paper stems from research undertaken as part of SiFTI (Success in the Film and Television Industries), a research project analysing the production cultures of several small-to-medium sized critically and commercially successful film and televisio... Read More about 'The general public don’t need to know who we are. We’re building a profile for the industry as a whole’: Inward engagement in the UK film and television industries.

Producing Noir: Wald, Scott, Hellinger (2014)
Book Chapter
Spicer, A. H. (2014). Producing Noir: Wald, Scott, Hellinger. In R. Miklitsch (Ed.), Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: On Classic Film Noir (130-151). Detroit: University of Illinois Press

This chapter is the first to be written about the role the producer played in creating 'classic' film noir (1940-1959). It explores the work of three contrasting producers, Jerry Wald (studio-based); Adrian Scott (studio, then blacklisted; and Mark H... Read More about Producing Noir: Wald, Scott, Hellinger.

The art and craft of producing films: Simon Relph (2014)
Journal Article
Spicer, A. (2014). The art and craft of producing films: Simon Relph. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 11(2-3), 236-251. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2014.0205

This article provides a career overview of Simon Relph, an important independent British producer and also the architect and first CEO of British Screen, which supported the work of numerous filmmakers who might otherwise have struggled to get their... Read More about The art and craft of producing films: Simon Relph.

The independent producer and the state: Simon Relph, government policy and the British film industry, 1980-2005 (2014)
Book Chapter
Spicer, A. H. (2014). The independent producer and the state: Simon Relph, government policy and the British film industry, 1980-2005. In A. H. Spicer, A. McKenna, & C. Meir (Eds.), Beyond the Bottom Line: The Producer in Film and Television Studies (65-93). New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501300202.ch-004

This chapter is the first comprehensive assessment of the career and importance of Simon Relph, who was an independent film producer, the Managing Director of British Screen (1985-90) which was one of the two main funders and commissioners (alongside... Read More about The independent producer and the state: Simon Relph, government policy and the British film industry, 1980-2005.

The Man Who Got Carter: Michael Klinger, Independent Production and the British Film Industry, 1960-1980 (2013)
Book
Spicer, A. H., & McKenna, A. (2013). The Man Who Got Carter: Michael Klinger, Independent Production and the British Film Industry, 1960-1980. London: I.B. Tauris

This is the first study to focus on the most successful British independent producer of the 1970s, though his career stretched from the early 1980s to the early 1980s. The research for this publication was funded by a two-year AHRC grant and is based... Read More about The Man Who Got Carter: Michael Klinger, Independent Production and the British Film Industry, 1960-1980.

A Companion to Film Noir (2013)
Book
Spicer, A. H., & Hanson, H. (2013). A. Spicer, & H. Hanson (Eds.), A Companion to Film Noir. Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

This edited collection contains 29 essays specially commissioned for this volume by leading scholars in the field. The volume is organised into 7 parts. Part 1, 'Conceptualising Film Noir', contains four essays that explore the ways in which this cat... Read More about A Companion to Film Noir.

Rescued from oblivion: Michael Klinger, Jewish Independent Producer (2013)
Journal Article
Spicer, A. (2013). Rescued from oblivion: Michael Klinger, Jewish Independent Producer. Jewish Film & New Media: An International Journal, 1(1), 87-90. https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.1.1.0087

This article gives a four-page overview of the career and significance of the British Jewish producer Michael Klinger. It argues for his importance and the varied and sometimes challenging nature of the films he produced, why his career took the shap... Read More about Rescued from oblivion: Michael Klinger, Jewish Independent Producer.

A British empire of their own? Jewish entrepreneurs in the British film industry (2012)
Journal Article
Spicer, A. H. (2012). A British empire of their own? Jewish entrepreneurs in the British film industry. Journal of European Popular Culture, 3(2), 117-129. https://doi.org/10.1386/jepc.3.2.117_1

The article provides an overview of the contribution of Jewish entrrpreneurs to the British film industry from the beginnings through to the present. It argues that film was an open and rapidly expanding industry that offered exciting opportunities i... Read More about A British empire of their own? Jewish entrepreneurs in the British film industry.

Film and visual culture (2012)
Book Chapter
Spicer, A. H. (2012). Film and visual culture. In I. Heywood, B. Sandywell, M. Gardiner, N. Gunalan, & C. M. Soussloff (Eds.), The Handbook of Visual Culture. Berg

Film noir and Los Angeles (2011)
Book Chapter
Spicer, A. H. (2011). Film noir and Los Angeles. In G. Solomons (Ed.), World Film Locations: Los Angeles. Bristol: Intellect

An overview of the different ways in which Los Angeles has been represented in film noir and neo-noir, so films from the 1940s to the present, from Double Indemnity (1944) to Collateral (2004). The essay explores the particular relationship between L... Read More about Film noir and Los Angeles.

The angel of death: Targetting the hitman (2011)
Book Chapter
Spicer, A. H. (2011). The angel of death: Targetting the hitman. In B. Nicol, P. Pulman, & E. McNulty (Eds.), Crime Cultures: Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film (155-174). London: Continuum

Although there are hundreds of films that feature hitmen, this is the first critical account of the origins, development and possible cultural and historical significance of this figure and thus an original contribution to scholarship. It charts the... Read More about The angel of death: Targetting the hitman.