Ida Lupino, Director, 2nd Edition

Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition

Therese Grisham, Julie Grossman (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2026 | Second Edition, Second Edition
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-4613-5 (ISBN)

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The updated edition of Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition, an in-depth exploration of Lupino’s film and television directing work, provides close readings of the films and TV episodes Lupino directed and accounts for the history of Lupino’s reception, continuing into the mid 2020s, in media and film scholarship. The book gives readers a fuller understanding of Lupino’s major contribution to the history of American cinema and media. The revisions update this book, the first on Lupino’s directing, to address recent scholarship on Lupino’s work and reinforce her abiding relevance for cinephiles and film scholars. It incorporates scholarly and popular culture references to Lupino in the last seven years. Updates include a foreword by writer and film critic Imogen Sara Smith, whose work in film scholarship and the public arena has drawn attention to Lupino and the importance of gender to film noir. Authors Therese Grisham and Julie Grossman have added a complete list of the TV episodes Lupino directed in the 1950s and 60s, as well as an updated epilogue.

This new addition addresses how our views of Lupino’s innovative cinema and her prodigious contributions to classic television have been taken up by others, proving that Lupino, whose reputation has waxed and waned since the middle of the 20th century, is here to stay as a major figure in the history of American media.

Therese Grisham taught in the film and media studies program and in the departments of humanities and philosophy at Oakton College in Des Plaines, Illinois. Julie Grossman is a professor of English and communication at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. Her publications include Penny Dreadful and Adaptation: Reanimating and Transforming the Monster and The Femme Fatale (Rutgers University Press).

Foreword by Imogen Sara Smith
Preface to the 2017 edition
Note on Quotations

Part I. Introducing Ida Lupino, Director and Feminist Auteur
A Rejection of Hollywood
Lupino Directs
Director Lupino and Colleagues
The Filmakers’ Films
Lupino and the Censors
Lupino as Feminist Auteur
Postwar Hollywood, American Society and Culture
Close-up on Outrage
Empathy and a Cinema of Engagement
Italian Neorealism or American Realisms?
Looking Backward? Outrage and M

Part II. Lupino’s Ingenious Genres: Early Films and The Trouble with Angels (1966)
The Social Problem Film and Film Noir
Home Noir
Home Is Where the Noir Is
Doubled Dreams in Hard, Fast and Beautiful
Doubled Domesticity in The Bigamist
Doubled Trauma: Outrage
A Mighty Girl: Lupino and The Trouble with Angels

Part III: Lupino Moves to Television
Industrial Contexts: Film to Television
Directing for Television
“No. 5 Checked Out”
Ida Lupino, Television Director
On Close Readings of 1950s and 1960s Television
“The Return”: Norma Desmond and Ida Lupino Haunt the Small Screen
Mr. Adams and Eve
Directed Episodes, 1956–1968
Comedies
Action, Thrillers, Mysteries
Westerns

Epilogue
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.3.2026
Vorwort	Imogen Sara Smith
Zusatzinfo	64 B-W images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-9788-4613-4 / 1978846134
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-4613-5 / 9781978846135
Zustand	Neuware