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Book SynopsisIda Lupino, Filmmaker begins with an exploration of biographical studies and analytical treatments of Lupino's film and television work as director, moving forward to assess Lupino's career in film and television with particular attention given to Lupino's singular, pioneering achievements and her role(s) within the cultural milieu(s) of her time, particularly the representation of women in cinema. Each chapter includes a close analysis of the film or television work with insights drawn from film history and cultural/gender studies to demonstrate that Lupino was a significant directorial figure in the development of film, especially in the late 1940s and early 1950sand in television extending well into the 1960s. Lupino left her imprint on filmmaking and her canon of film and television work continue to influence Hollywood movie making.The contributors to this volume assess Lupino's main strengths as a filmmakerher treatment of narrative movement, plotting, dialogue, gender role
Trade ReviewThis book is an extremely timely and much-needed addition to the growing corpus of works on female filmmakers. A most welcome intervention in the scholarship on Ida Lupino, female directors, Hollywood history and Hollywood gender politics * Elisabetta Girelli, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of St Andrews, UK *
In a more just world, Ida Lupino would be properly recognized as a creative icon and giant in film and television history. Thankfully, Phillip Sipiora and a talented group of film historians, writers, and critics have brought her (and her work) to life in
Ida Lupino, Filmmaker. This book masterfully bares Lupino’s epic, four-decade career as actor, writer, director, and producer. Filled with context, deep research, and strong analysis,
Ida Lupino, Filmmaker is a foundational text that lays out a new path for film and television history. * Bob Batchelor, award-winning author of Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel *
Table of ContentsPreface Gary D. Rhodes
(The Queen's University of Belfast, Ireland) Foreword
Cynthia Miller (Emerson College, USA) 1. All Sides of the Camera
Phillip Sipiora (University of South Florida, USA) 2. Beyond the Performance: American Stages and the Business of Show
Karen McNally (London Metropolitan University, UK) 3. Ida Lupino: A Life in Hollywood
William T. Ross (University of South Florida, USA) 4. Overlooked and Under-Represented: The Essential Lupino
Courtney J. Ruffner Grieneisen (State College of Florida, USA) 5. “A Big Family of Little Failures”: Post War America's Children and Ida Lupino's
Not Wanted Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College, USA) 6. (Not So) “Vicious and Depraved”: Ida Lupino's Portraits of Men
Marlisa Santos (Nova Southeastern University, USA) 7. Accidental Outlaw: Agency and Genre in
The Bigamist Michael L. Shuman (University of South Florida, USA) 8. Ida Lupino’s Moral Filmmaking:
The Bigamist and
The Trouble with Angels Ashley M. Donnelly (Ball State University, USA) 9. Ida Lupino’s Manipulation of Age Conventions
Valerie Barnes Lipscomb (University of South Florida at Sarasota Manatee, USA) 10. Ida Lupino and Acting: Situating Performance in Cinematic Context(s)
Curtis LeVan (University of South Florida, USA) 11. Against the Grain, Within the Frame: The Double Consciousness of Ida Lupino
Mary Lynn Navarro (Kingsborough Community College, USA) 12.
Outrage and Trauma: A Reconsideration and Re-evaluation
Kathleen Robinson (Eckerd College, USA) 13.
The Hitch-Hiker: Being and Darkness
Phillip Sipiora (University of South Florida, USA) 14. Unsolicited Bequest: Ambivalent Inheritance in Ida Lupino’s 1960s Mysteries
Ann Torrusio (Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, USA) 15. A Subtle Subversion: Ida Lupino Directing Television
Adam Breckenridge (New England Institute of Technology, USA) 16. Ida Lupino's Thrillers: The Terror of the “Lethal Woman”
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Index
