Studying Unmade, Unseen, and Unreleased Film and Television

Histories, Theories, Methods

James Fenwick, Kieran Foster (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

316 Seiten

2026
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-83595-247-4 (ISBN)

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A compendium to the study of unmade, unseen, and unreleased film and television, with case studies, definitions, indications for further reading, and details of methodological and theoretical approaches. A foundational text it also contains new discoveries and perspectives and is a key reference text for established researchers. 9 b&w illus.

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.

James Fenwick is Senior Lecturer in Cultural, Creative and Media Industries at the University of Manchester's Institute for Cultural Practices, and co-editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Kieran Foster is Assistant Professor in Film and Screen Studies at the University of Nottingham.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	11.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	Unmade Film and Television
Zusatzinfo	9 Halftones, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	708 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-83595-247-X / 183595247X
ISBN-13	978-1-83595-247-4 / 9781835952474
Zustand	Neuware