BOOK DATA Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon, eds., Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film. University of California Press, 2023. $95.00 cloth; $34.95 paper; $34.95 e-book. 374 pages.

“A desire for what is absent, a thirst for the unmade that is also a thirst for the making” (6). Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon’s Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film is a landmark contribution to film practice, theory, and history, embracing the concept of incompletion not merely as an absence but as a fertile ground for new interpretations, particularly through a feminist lens. This collection of thirteen chapters presents an innovative contribution to the “unproduction studies” initiated by the 2020 publication of the edited volume Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Film, which aimed to draw attention to the need to study unmade, unfinished, unseen, and unreleased projects. The contributors to Incomplete expand...

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