Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films

by James Fenwick

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501370960
• ISBN13: 9781501370960
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"