Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-3065-4 (ISBN)
Though her acting career is well known, Ida Lupino was, until very recently, either unknown or overlooked as an influential director. One of the few female directors in Classical Hollywood, Lupino was the only woman with membership in the Directors Guild of America between 1948 and 1971. Her films were about women without power in society and engaged with highly controversial topics despite Hollywood’s strict production code. Working in a male-dominated field, Lupino was forced to manage her public persona carefully, resisting attempts by the press to paint her solely as a dutiful wife and mother-a continual feminization-just so that she could continue directing.
Filmmaker Alexandra Seros retells the story of Ida Lupino’s career, from actor to director, first in film, then in television, using archival materials from collections housed around the world. The result provides rich insights into three of Lupino’s independently directed films and a number of episodes from her vast television oeuvre. Seros contextualizes this analysis with discussions of gendered labor in the film industry, the rise of consumerism in the United States after World War II, and the expectations put on women in their family lives during the postwar era. Seros’s portrait of Lupino ultimately paints her life and career as an exemplar of collaborative auteurship.
Alexandra Seros is a screenwriter with a PhD in cinema and media studies. She is currently working with UCLA to preserve film and early television movies directed and written by Ida Lupino.
Preface. The Authenticity of a Fragment
Introduction. Ambiguity and Paradox in Ida Lupino
Part I. Auteur-in-Waiting
Chapter 1. A Star Study
Chapter 2. Certain Women of Post World-War II
Chapter 3. Six Movies, Five Years
Part II. Case Studies: Three Independent Films 000
Chapter 4. Not Wanted
Chapter 5. Never Fear
Chapter 6. The Hitch-Hiker
Part III. Television
Chapter 7. Lupino and Early Television
Chapter 8. Across Media with Ray, Aldrich, and Hitchcock
Chapter 9. Patterns and Strategies in Lupino’s Television Directing
Conclusion. Lupinian Collaboration, the New Auteurism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
Bio
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.01.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 35 b&w photos |
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 680 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-3065-8 / 1477330658 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-3065-4 / 9781477330654 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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