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- Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
summary
Dominated by men and bound by the restrictive Hays Code, postwar Hollywood offered little support for a female director who sought to make unique films on controversial subjects. But Ida Lupino bucked the system, writing and directing a string of movies that exposed the dark underside of American society, on topics such as rape, polio, unwed motherhood, bigamy, exploitative sports, and serial murder.
The first in-depth study devoted to Lupino’s directorial work, this book makes a strong case for her as a trailblazing feminist auteur, a filmmaker with a clear signature style and an abiding interest in depicting the plights of postwar American women. Ida Lupino, Director not only examines her work as a cinematic auteur, but also offers a serious consideration of her diverse and long-ranging career, getting her start in Hollywood as an actress in her teens and twenties, directing her first films in her early thirties, and later working as an acclaimed director of television westerns, sitcoms, and suspense dramas. It also demonstrates how Lupino fused generic elements of film noir and the social problem film to create a distinctive directorial style that was both highly expressionistic and grittily realistic. Ida Lupino, Director thus shines a long-awaited spotlight on one of our greatest filmmakers.
The first in-depth study devoted to Lupino’s directorial work, this book makes a strong case for her as a trailblazing feminist auteur, a filmmaker with a clear signature style and an abiding interest in depicting the plights of postwar American women. Ida Lupino, Director not only examines her work as a cinematic auteur, but also offers a serious consideration of her diverse and long-ranging career, getting her start in Hollywood as an actress in her teens and twenties, directing her first films in her early thirties, and later working as an acclaimed director of television westerns, sitcoms, and suspense dramas. It also demonstrates how Lupino fused generic elements of film noir and the social problem film to create a distinctive directorial style that was both highly expressionistic and grittily realistic. Ida Lupino, Director thus shines a long-awaited spotlight on one of our greatest filmmakers.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. ii-iv
- Note on Quotations
- pp. xi-xiv
- A Rejection of Hollywood
- pp. 3-6
- Lupino Directs
- pp. 6-10
- Director Lupino and Colleagues
- pp. 10-12
- The Filmakers’ Films
- pp. 12-18
- Lupino and the Censors
- pp. 18-28
- Lupino as Feminist Auteur
- pp. 28-38
- Close-up on Outrage
- pp. 42-47
- Empathy and a Cinema of Engagement
- pp. 47-49
- Looking Backward?: Outrage and M
- pp. 53-60
- Home Is Where the Noir Is
- pp. 86-89
- Doubled Domesticity in The Bigamist
- pp. 96-100
- Doubled Trauma: Outrage
- pp. 100-110
- Part Three: Lupino Moves to Television
- Industrial Contexts: Film to Television
- pp. 119-123
- Directing for Television
- pp. 123-126
- “No. 5 Checked Out”
- pp. 126-133
- Ida Lupino, Television Director
- pp. 133-136
- Mr. Adams and Eve
- pp. 149-161
- Directed Episodes, 1956–1968
- pp. 161-166
- Action, Thrillers, Mysteries
- pp. 174-191
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 203-204
- Works Cited
- pp. 221-232
- About the Authors
- pp. 249-250
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813574936
Related ISBN(s)
9780813574912
MARC Record
OCLC
987792615
Pages
264
Launched on MUSE
2017-05-26
Language
English
Open Access
No