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.
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.
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