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Alix Beeston is Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff University and author of In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen. Stefan Solomon is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Macquarie University and author of William Faulkner in Hollywood: Screenwriting for the Studios.

Contents

Editors’ Acknowledgments 

Pathways to the Feminist Incomplete: An Introduction, a Theory, a Manifesto
Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon 

PART ONE. UNFOUND OBJECTS 
1. Never
Jane M. Gaines 
2. Catastrophic Optimism in the Name of Léontine
Maggie Hennefeld 
3. Body Parts: Feeling Labor in Early Film Color
Katherine Groo 

PART TWO. REFUSALS AND INTERRUPTIONS 
4. Creating the Archive for Incomplete Feminist Cinematic Narratives: The Andean-Amazonian Case
Isabel Seguí 
5. Women (Not) Making Movies under the Popular Unity in Chile (1970–1973)
Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto 
6. Writing with Jocelyne Saab: Infinite Metamorphoses and Sensitive Variations
Mathilde Rouxel 

PART THREE. IN PROCESS 
7. Ins and Outtakes: An Interview
Peggy Ahwesh and Leo Goldsmith 
8. “They keep moving”: Serialized Incompletion in the Work of Leslie Thornton and Lynn Hershman Leeson
Stefan Solomon 
9. One Long Electrical Cord: Dance, Editing, and the Creative Unfinished
Karen Pearlman 
10. Shirkers and Its Afterlives: Six Epitaphs for an Incomplete Film
Sophia Siddique 

PART FOUR. POSTHUMOUS RETURNS 
11. Kathleen Collins . . . Posthumously
Alix Beeston 
12. The Fierce, Unfinishable, Feminist Legacies of Helen Hill
Karen Redrobe 
13. Girls Who Can’t Say No: Celebrity Resurrections and the Consent of the Dead
Katherine Fusco 

The Ruined Map, Relinked: A Postscript
Giuliana Bruno 

About the Contributors 
Index