Incomplete : The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beeston, Alix.

Contributor:

Beeston, Alix, editor.

Solomon, Stefan, 1986- editor.

Series:

Feminist Media Histories Series

Feminist Media Histories Series ; v.5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unfinished films--History and criticism.

Unfinished films.

Motion pictures and women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Incomplete

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : 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 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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Editors' Acknowledgments

Pathways to the Feminist Incomplete: An Introduction, a Theory, a Manifesto

Part One. Unfound Objects

1. Never

2. Catastrophic Optimism in the Name of Léontine

3. Body Parts: Feeling Labor in Early Film Color

Part Two. Refusals and Interruptions

4. Creating the Archive for Incomplete Feminist Cinematic Narratives: The Andean-Amazonian Case

5. Women (Not) Making Movies under the Popular Unity in Chile (1970-1973)

6. Writing with Jocelyne Saab: Infinite Metamorphoses and Sensitive Variations

Part Three. In Process

7. Ins and Outtakes: An Interview

8. "They keep moving": Serialized Incompletion in the Work of Leslie Thornton and Lynn Hershman Leeson

9. One Long Electrical Cord: Dance, Editing, and the Creative Unfinished

10. Shirkers and Its Afterlives: Six Epitaphs for an Incomplete Film

Part Four. Posthumous Returns

11. Kathleen Collins . . . Posthumously

12. The Fierce, Unfinishable, Feminist Legacies of Helen Hill

13. Girls Who Can't Say No: Celebrity Resurrections and the Consent of the Dead

The Ruined Map, Relinked: A Postscript

About the Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520381483

0520381483

OCLC:

1376195121