Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film with Alix Beeston

ABOUT

Alix Beeston is Reader in Literature and Visual Culture (Associate Professor) at Cardiff University. She is a writer and academic whose work advances interdisciplinary approaches to literature, film, and photography in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, while also experimenting with new modes of scholarly writing and dissemination. Her work performs a feminist revaluation of negative phenomena such as absence or silence as well as literary and visual objects that are seen as marginal, riven with gaps and flaws, or confounding in their effects. She is the founder of the digital project Object Women and author of In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen (Oxford University Press, 2018). Recently, her coedited book by Stefan Solomon, Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of Unfinished Film was published as part of the Feminist Media Histories series at the University of California Press in June 2023. Alix is the founder and coeditor, with Pardis Dabashi, of the Visualities forum at the online platform of Modernism/modernity; the coorganizer, with Hayley O’Malley and John Hoffman, of the Film Studies Special Interest Group at the Modernist Studies Association; and a founding member and coconvenor of Image Works: Research and Practice in Visual Culture at Cardiff University.

Cosponsored by the Film Studies Program

Event Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm