Introduction: Unmade, unseen, and unreleased film and television: an unresolved problem James Fenwick and Kieran Foster Part one: Theorizing the unmade, unseen and, unreleased Chapter one: Creative failure Peter C. Kunze Chapter two: The poetics of phantom cinema: waiting for Harry Dickson Philippe C. Met Chapter three: Archival absences, silences, and fragments: the unmade and film history James Fenwick Chapter four: Batgirl incorporated: Cancelled films, corporate strategy and questions of quality Kieran Foster Chapter five: Posthumous cinema: unfinished films in the archives Monika Kin Gagnon Chapter six: Phantom visions of the SnyderVerse: unproduction and the fan-led battle to restore Zack Snyder's DC Extended Universe films Ryan Greene Chapter seven: Queer histories of the unmade Sabrina Mittermeier Chapter eight: Becoming unmade Zach Karpinellison Part two: Archives of the unmade, unseen, and unreleased Chapter nine: Disinterring Johanna Ter Steege: Aryan Papers and the materiality of the Stanley Kubrick Archive Cassie Brummitt and Joy McEntee Chapter ten: The unmade films of George Pal James Chapman Chapter eleven: The lost crusade: Lindsay Anderson's unmade sequel to If. (1968) Will Kitchen Chapter twelve: No film to watch: Pare Lorentz and the atom bomb Jason Potel Chapter thirteen: Ken Russell's unmade films 1968-1982: a critical reflection Matthew Melia Chapter fourteen: The case of Tizia Jus: an unmade film in post-war Austria Hanja Dämon Chapter fifteen: The location outtakes for Claude Lanzmann's Shoah Sue Vice and Dominic Williams Part three: Creative practice and the unmade, unseen, and unreleased Chapter sixteen: Not showing at this cinema: festivals of the unmade Tim Brown Chapter seventeen: Containing, transforming, transcending the story: notes from a scriptwriter's journey Marianne Strand Chapter eighteen: The Unfilmables Colm McAuliffe Notes on contributors Index.