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- Title
A Profound Legacy: Vincent Porter.
- Authors
Spicer, Andrew
- Abstract
Porter evaluated the roles played by various personnel, concluding that the scenario editor, the German-Jewish émigré Frederick Gotfurt, was the most influential figure, and was also responsible for the corporation's films' recurring preoccupation with the outsider or visiting stranger. In 'All Change at Elstree: Warner Bros., ABPC and British Film Policy, 1945-1961' (2001), Porter's meticulous scholarship - the article's 289 footnotes drew on archival sources at the Public Record Office, Warner Bros. Porter has left a profound legacy through his publications, his policy interventions and his role as one of the leading figures in the establishment of cinema and television studies as a recognised discipline in the UK in the 1970s. Vincent Porter (22 May 1939-17August 2022) was a leading member of a foundational generation of scholars coming through in the 1970s who established the study of film and television as a legitimate and significant area of critical enquiry in Britain.
- Subjects
PROPAGANDA; FRENCH films; CULTURAL centers; MASS media policy; FILM genres; ECONOMIC entity; FILM criticism; INDEPENDENT films
- Publication
Journal of British Cinema & Television, 2023, Vol 20, Issue 1, p119
- ISSN
1743-4521
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/jbctv.2023.0659