[Commlist] CFP deadline approaching: Unmade, Unfinished, Unseen: Shadow Histories of Cinema and Television conference

Unmade, Unfinished, Unseen: Shadow Histories of Cinema and Television

Two day international conference, 16 – 17 September 2020

De Montfort University, Leicester

Cinema and Television History Research Institute (CATHI), De Montfort 
University, and Sheffield Hallam University

Keynote speakers: Dr Shelley Cobb (University of Southampton), Professor 
Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England), and others to follow.


Unmade films and TV programmes have become a subject of both academic 
and popular interest, driven partly by the opening of archives with 
significant holdings of unproduced screenplays. As well as books on 
Kubrick’s Napoleon and The Greatest Movies You’ll Never See, recent 
years have seen documentary films on ‘lost projects’ such as Lost in La 
Mancha (2002) and Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013), radio adaptations of Unmade 
Movies like Welles’s Heart of Darkness, and stage readings of unproduced 
Hammer scripts such as Vampirella.  Yet, while much of this interest has 
centred on the unrealised films and TV programmes of significant 
directors and writers, research is needed into wider issues around 
‘unproduction studies’, such as career breaks, cultures of script 
development, development hell, and the industrial logic of failure.

We invite papers for submission on any aspect of unmade cinema and 
television. Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:

•	Gendered / racial inequalities and unmade projects •	Case studies of 
unrealised screenplays, screen treatments, passion projects etc.
•	Gate-keeping in media industries (agents, script readers etc.)
•	Methodologies for using unmade screenplays as a resource for scholarly 
research
•	Actual or possible realisations of unmade projects
•	Fandom and the resurrection of unmade projects
•	The unmade as alternative or counterfactual media history
•	The literary status of unproduced screenplays
•	Industrial perspectives
•	The ‘Black List’ of most liked unproduced screenplays
•	Archival approaches to the study of the unmade
•	Creative failure



Proposals for twenty-minute presentations to be emailed to Professor Ian 
Hunter: (iqhunter /at/ dmu.ac.uk) and Dr James Fenwick: (j.fenwick /at/ shu.ac.uk) 
with a submission deadline of 31 January 2020. Abstracts should be no 
more than 250 words and include a 100-word biography.


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