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Ida Lupino, Director : Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition / Julie Grossman, Therese Grisham.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) : 64 photographsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813574912
  • 9780813574936
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43028092 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1998.3.L89 G75 2017eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Quotations -- PART ONE. Introducing Ida Lupino, Director and Feminist Auteur -- PART TWO. Lupino's Ingenious Genres: Early Films and The Trouble with Angels (1966) -- PART THREE. Lupino Moves to Television -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Authors
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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Quotations -- PART ONE. Introducing Ida Lupino, Director and Feminist Auteur -- PART TWO. Lupino's Ingenious Genres: Early Films and The Trouble with Angels (1966) -- PART THREE. Lupino Moves to Television -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Authors

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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