Shadow Cinema The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
James Fenwick is a senior lecturer in Media and Communications at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of Stanley Kubrick Produces (2020) and Unproduction Studies and the American Film Industry (2021).
Kieran Foster is an AHRC funded PhD student at De Montfort University, UK. His research focuses on the British Company Hammerâs Films unmade projects. He has published in peer-reviewed journals, with an piece on Hammerâs failed adaptation Vlad the Impaler appearing in the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance.
David Eldridge is a senior lecturer in American Studies at the University of Hull, UK. He is the author of Hollywoodâs History Films (2008) and is currently working on a monograph concerning the impact that censorship has had on the American film industryâs representations of the past.
This important volume will help to consolidate a rapidly growing area of research in Film Studies and related disciplines. The authors do not only provide outlines of individual films that could have been, but, more fundamentally, investigate the financial, legal, creative, political and logistical difficulties of getting films into production and onto screens. Their chapters deal, often in a wholly surprising manner, with familiar names (ranging from David OâSelznick and Hammer Films to Jean-Luc Godard and Ritwik Ghatak) and also with a wealth of lesser known personnel and companies.
Peter Krämer, author of BFI Film Classics on 2001: A Space Odyssey (2020), Dr. Strangelove (2014) and The General (2016)
Filmmakers and cinema industries across the globe invest more time, money and creative energy in projects and ideas that never get produced than in the movies that actually make it to the screens. Thousands of projects are abandoned in pre-production, halted, cut short, or even made and never distributed â a âshadow cinemaâ that exists only in the archives.
This collection of essays by leading scholars and researchers opens those archives to draw on a wealth of previously unexamined scripts, correspondence and production material, reconstructing many of the hidden histories of the last hundred years of world cinema. Highlighting the fact that the movies we see are actually the exception to the rule, this study uncovers the myriad reasons why âfailuresâ occur and considers how understanding those failures can transform the disciplines of film and media history. The first survey of this new area of empirical study across transnational borders, Shadow Cinema is a vital and fascinating demonstration of the importance of the unmade, unseen, and unknown history of cinema.
Part I: Producers and production companies
1. A production strategy of overdevelopment: Kirk Douglasâs Bryna Productions and the unproduced Viva Gringo!
James Fenwick
2. Gone with the winds that never were: The David O. Selznick Archive and unmade historical cinema
David Eldridge
3. Parting the Iron Curtain: Michael Klingerâs attempt to make A Man and a Half
Andrew Spicer
Part II: Directors and auteurs
4. Unfinished business: Godard, cinema and theatre in the 1960s
Michael Witt
5. Ken Russellâs unfinished projects and unmade films, 1956-1968: The BBC years
Matthew Melia
6. Ghatak in the shadows: Films that struggled
Sanghita Sen
Part III: Questioning the unmade
7. Herding Cats; or, the possibilities of unproduction studies
Peter C. Kunze
8. Assembling Frankenstein
Kieran Foster
9. Burning bright: Samuel Fullerâs Tigrero and accidental ethnography
Andrew Howe
10. Clouzotâs LâEnfer
Lucy Mazdon
11. Claude Lanzmannâs Shoah and its shadow: Rescue and resistance
Sue Vice
Part IV: Reconstructing the unmade
12. The never Alice: Marilyn Manson, gothic girlhoods, and Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
13. The movie producer, the feminists and the serial killer: UK feminist activism, misogynist 70s film culture and the (non) filming of the Yorkshire Ripper Murders
Hannah Hamad
14. The unmade undead: A post-mortem of the post-9/11 zombie cycle
Todd K. Platts
Index
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
James Fenwick is a senior lecturer in Media and Communications at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of Stanley Kubrick Produces (2020) and Unproduction Studies and the American Film Industry (2021).
Kieran Foster is an AHRC funded PhD student at De Montfort University, UK. His research focuses on the British Company Hammerâs Films unmade projects. He has published in peer-reviewed journals, with an piece on Hammerâs failed adaptation Vlad the Impaler appearing in the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance.
David Eldridge is a senior lecturer in American Studies at the University of Hull, UK. He is the author of Hollywoodâs History Films (2008) and is currently working on a monograph concerning the impact that censorship has had on the American film industryâs representations of the past.