This field-defining collection establishes unfinished film projects—abandoned, interrupted, lost, or open-ended—as rich and underappreciated resources for feminist film and media studies. In a series of deeply researched and creatively conceived chapters, scholars join with film practitioners in approaching the unfinished film as an ideal site for revealing the lived experiences, practical conditions, and institutional realities of women's film production across historical periods and national borders. Incomplete recovers projects and practices marginalized in film industries and scholarship alike, while also showing how feminist filmmakers have cultivated incompletion as an aesthetic strategy. Objects of loss and of possibility, incomplete films raise profound historiographical and ethical questions about the always-unfinished project of film history, film spectatorship, and film studies.
Edited by:
Dr. Alix Beeston,
Dr. Stefan Solomon
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 5
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780520381469
ISBN 10: 0520381467
Series: Feminist Media Histories
Pages: 374
Publication Date: 06 June 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents Editors’ Acknowledgments Pathways to the Feminist Incomplete: An Introduction, a Theory, a Manifesto Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon PART ONE. UNFOUND OBJECTS 1. Never Jane M. Gaines 2. Catastrophic Optimism in the Name of Léontine Maggie Hennefeld 3. Body Parts: Feeling Labor in Early Film Color Katherine Groo PART TWO. REFUSALS AND INTERRUPTIONS 4. Creating the Archive for Incomplete Feminist Cinematic Narratives: The Andean-Amazonian Case Isabel Seguí 5. Women (Not) Making Movies under the Popular Unity in Chile (1970–1973) Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto 6. Writing with Jocelyne Saab: Infinite Metamorphoses and Sensitive Variations Mathilde Rouxel PART THREE. IN PROCESS 7. Ins and Outtakes: An Interview Peggy Ahwesh and Leo Goldsmith 8. “They keep moving”: Serialized Incompletion in the Work of Leslie Thornton and Lynn Hershman Leeson Stefan Solomon 9. One Long Electrical Cord: Dance, Editing, and the Creative Unfinished Karen Pearlman 10. Shirkers and Its Afterlives: Six Epitaphs for an Incomplete Film Sophia Siddique PART FOUR. POSTHUMOUS RETURNS 11. Kathleen Collins . . . Posthumously Alix Beeston 12. The Fierce, Unfinishable, Feminist Legacies of Helen Hill Karen Redrobe 13. Girls Who Can’t Say No: Celebrity Resurrections and the Consent of the Dead Katherine Fusco The Ruined Map, Relinked: A Postscript Giuliana Bruno About the Contributors Index
Alix Beeston is Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff University and author of In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen. Stefan Solomon is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Macquarie University and author of William Faulkner in Hollywood: Screenwriting for the Studios.
