Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films by Fenwick, James

Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501351594)

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Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films by Fenwick, James

Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films

$150.00
Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films by Fenwick, James

Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films

$150.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 - a "shadow cinema" 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 'failures' 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.

Author: James Fenwick
ISBN-10: 1501351591
ISBN-13: 9781501351594
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 11/12/2020
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
By James Fenwick
By James Fenwick
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James Fenwick is a senior lecturer in Film Studies at the University of the West of England, UK. He is also the editor of the collection Understanding Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: Representation and Interpretation (2018), and has co-edited two special journal issues on Stanley Kubrick.

Kieran Foster is an AHRC funded PhD student at De Montfort University, UK. His research focuses on the British Company Hammer's Films unmade projects. He has published in peer-reviewed journals, with an piece on Hammer's 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 Hollywood's History Films (2008) and is currently working on a monograph concerning the impact that censorship has had on the American film industry's representations of the past.

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