Incomplete

The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film

Dr. Alix Beeston, Dr. Stefan Solomon (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

374 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38146-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	31.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	Feminist Media Histories ; 5
Zusatzinfo	40 b-w images
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-520-38146-7 / 0520381467
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38146-9 / 9780520381469
Zustand	Neuware