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.
This collection of essays by leading scholars and researchers opens those archives to draw on a wealth of previously unexamined scrip.
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.
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