Archives and Auteurs: conference papers online

Lindsay Anderson meeting the "Queen' ( on the set of Britannia Hospital, 1982)

As part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded research project on 'The Cinema Authorship of Lindsay Anderson' (see detailed project outline), a conference on Archives and Auteurs was held at the University of Stirling from 2nd - 4th September 2009. The conference brought archivists, academics, curators and researchers together to discuss the ways in which the study of the archives of filmmakers and the film industry can provide new perspectives and insights into the history of cinema.

Film Studies For Free was delighted to see that the excellent papers from the conference are now freely accessible online at the Stirling University website.

Direct links to open pdf files are given below. In addition, check out Kathryn Mackenzie's wonderful blog -- Archives and Auteurs -- devoted to this project. A selection of Anderson's photograph albums from 1940s and 1950s have been made available on the University of Stirling Archives flickr pages. These albums provide a rich visual record of Anderson's early years as a filmmaker, documenting the early industrial films he made in Wakefield, his trips to the Cannes Film Festival and his contribution to Free Cinema. Those interested should also read this related article by Isabelle Gourdin-Sangouard, 'Creating Authorship? Lindsay Anderson and David Sherwin’s collaboration on If.... (1968)', Journal of Screenwriting, Volume 1, Number 1, 2010. And finally, Moving Image Source published a great article on Anderson (August 14, 2008) by Steve Erickson, entitled 'Anarchy in the U.K': 

• Charles Barr, 'About the John Ford Archive'

• Steve Chibnall, 'A Family Film Business: Researching the Adelphi Archive'

• Eirik Frisvold Hanssen, 'The Fairy-Tale Theatre: Reception and Authorship at the Margins of the Ingmar Bergman Archive'

• Isabelle Gourdin-Sangouard, 'Some Kind of Dialectic: Lindsay Anderson's Artistic Process'  Pt.1

• Isabelle Gourdin-Sangouard, 'Some Kind of Dialectic: Lindsay Anderson's Artistic Process' Pt.2

• Aaron Hunter, 'Down to the Last Detail: Archival Reconstruction of Hal Ashby's Place in Hollywood Cinema'

• John Izod, 'A bumpy ride on The White Bus'

• Kathryn Mackenzie, 'Britannia Hospital: searching the archives for an audience'   

• Karl Magee, 'O Lucky Man? Investigating the Lindsay Anderson Archive'  

• Brian Neve, 'Archives, process and discourse: Elia Kazan, Baby Doll and 'independent' American filmmaking, 1955-63'

• Andrew Spicer, 'The Creative Producer: The Michael Klinger Papers'

• Sarah  Street, '"Designing for Moving Pictures": Production Designers and/in the Archives'

• Karyn Stuckey, 'Lolita: a journey with Nabokov and Kubrick from the page to the screen'

• Marc Vernet, 'The Ince 'Method' and Film on the West Coast between 1913 and 1917'

James Bond Production Designer: Audio Slideshow

Sir Ken Adam at the Imperial War Museum's ongoing James Bond exhibition

Four minutes to spare? Then Film Studies For Free respectfully recommends that you spend them visiting the BBC site where they have a great little audio slideshow in which Sir Ken Adam, the production designer of James Bond films (and many other films besides), 'shares his thoughts on two of his most celebrated [Bond] sets'. Check out the link HERE.

It's been posted to the BBC pages in connection with the publication of Ken Adam Designs the Movies, James Bond and Beyond by Ken Adam and Christopher Frayling (by Thames and Hudson). See the Commander Bond fansite HERE for further info.

Eight more minutes to spare? See a great YouTube video about Adam's work HERE.