Incomplete: the feminist possibilities of the unfinished film

Alix Beeston; Stefan Solomon

doi:10.2307/jj.2010053

Incomplete: the feminist possibilities of the unfinished film

Alix Beeston (Editor), Stefan Solomon (Editor)

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Oakland, USA
Publisher	University of California Press
Number of pages	374
ISBN (Electronic)	9780520381483
ISBN (Print)	9780520381469, 9780520381476
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.2010053
Publication status	Published - 2023

Publication series

Name	Feminist Media Histories
Publisher	University of California Press
No.	5

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BAFTSS Best Edited Collection

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De onaffe film als feministische mogelijkheid: Interview met Alix Beeston en Stefan Solomon (The Unfinished Film as Feminist Possibility: Interview with Alix Bestow and Stefan Solomon)