Incomplete
The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film
1st Edition
Published on 6. June 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
374 pages
978-0-520-38147-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 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.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
40 b-w images
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-38147-6 (9780520381476)
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Persons
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.
Stefan Solomon is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Macquarie University and author of William Faulkner in Hollywood: Screenwriting for the Studios.
Content
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 Leontine
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 Segui
5. Women (Not) Making Movies under the Popular Unity in Chile (1970-1973)
Elizabeth Ramirez-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
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 Leontine
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 Segui
5. Women (Not) Making Movies under the Popular Unity in Chile (1970-1973)
Elizabeth Ramirez-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