Incomplete : the feminist possibilities of the unfinished film / edited by Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beeston, Alix, editor.

Solomon, Stefan, 1986- editor.

Series:

Feminist media histories (Series) ; 5.

Feminist media histories ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures and women.

Unfinished films--History and criticism.

Unfinished films.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 361 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Pathways to the feminist incomplete : an introduction, a theory, a manifesto / Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon

Never / Jane M. Gaines

Catastrophic optimism in the name of Léontine / Maggie Hennefeld

Body parts : feeling labor in early film color / Katherine Groo

Creating the archive for incomplete feminist cinematic narratives : the Andean-Amazonian case / Isabel Seguí

Women (not) making movies under the Popular Unity in Chile (1970-1973) / Elizabeth Ramirez-Soto

Writing with Jocelyne Saab : infinite metamorphoses and sensitive variations / Mathilde Rouxel

Ins and Ahwesh outtakes : an interview / Peggy Ahwesh and Leo Goldsmith

"They keep moving" : serialized incompletion in Leslie Thornton's Peggy and Fred in hell and Lynn Hershman Leeson's The electronic diaries / Stefan Solomon

One long electrical cord : dance, editing, and the creative unfinished / Karen Pearlman

Shirkers and its afterlives : six epitaphs for an incomplete film / Sophia Siddique

Kathleen Collins . . . posthumously / Alix Beeston

The fierce, unfinishable, feminist legacies of Helen Hill / Karen Redrobe

Girls who can't say no : celebrity resurrections and the consent of the dead / Katherine Fusco

Postscript : the ruined map, relinked / Giuliana Bruno.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Incomplete

ISBN:

9780520381469

0520381467

9780520381476

0520381475

OCLC:

1346146444