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Unmade, unseen, and unreleased film and television are an overlooked phenomenon in film and media history, despite a substantial amount of the financial and labour resource of these industries being invested in projects that are never produced or distributed.
This edited collection investigates the key themes, debates, methods, and theories adopted in the study of unmade, unseen, and unreleased film and television. Each of the contributors provides a state-of-the-art overview of their particular topic, setting out the key arguments, and reflecting on relevant case studies. Setting out what is at stake in the study of unmade, unseen, and unreleased film and television, it serves as a foundational text for students and those new to this field of enquiry, as well as a key reference text for established researchers.
The collection is centred on major aspects of defining the unmade, unseen, and unreleased, exploring methods and approaches adopted by scholars working in the field and providing critical surveys of existing output. The collection surveys the scale of unmade projects and examines innovative research methods by bringing together case studies on film and television industries from across history and across the globe.
List of Figures
Introduction: Unmade, Unseen and Unreleased Film and Television – an Unresolved Problem
James Fenwick and Kieran Foster
PART I: THEORIZING THE UNMADE, UNSEEN AND UNRELEASED
1 Creative Failure
Peter C. Kunze
2 The Poetics of Phantom Cinema: Waiting for Harry Dickson
Philippe C. Met
3 Archival Absences, Silences and Fragments: The Unmade and Film History
James Fenwick
4 Batgirl Incorporated: Cancelled Films, Corporate Strategy and Questions of Quality
Kieran Foster
5 Posthumous Cinema: Unfinished Films in the Archives
Monika Kin Gagnon
6 Phantom Visions of the SnyderVerse: Unproduction and the Fan-Led Battle to Restore Zack Snyder’s DC Extended Universe Films
Ryan Greene
7 Queer Histories of the Unmade
Sabrina Mittermeier
8 Becoming Unmade
Zach Karpinellison
PART II: ARCHIVES OF THE UNMADE, UNSEEN AND UNRELEASED
9 Disinterring Johanna ter Steege: Aryan Papers and the Materiality of the Stanley Kubrick Archive
Cassie Brummitt and Joy McEntee
10 The Lost Crusade: Lindsay Anderson’s Unmade Sequel to If … (1968)
Will Kitchen
11 No Film to Watch: Pare Lorentz and the Atom Bomb
Jason Potel
12 Ken Russell’s Unmade Films 1968– 82: A Critical Reflection
Matthew Melia
13 The Case of Tizia Jus: An Unmade Film in Post- War Austria
Hanja D.mon
14 The Location Outtakes for Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah
Sue Vice and Dominic Williams
PART III: CREATIVE PRACTICE AND THE UNMADE, UNSEEN AND UNRELEASED
15 Not Showing at This Cinema: Festivals of the Unmade 269
Tim Brown
16 Containing, Transforming, Transcending the Story: Notes from a Scriptwriter’s Journey
Marianne Strand
17 The Unfilmables
Colm McAuliffe
Notes on Contributors
Index