Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur : From Film Noir to the Director's Chair.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seros, Alexandra.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Filmakers, Inc. (Hollywood, Calif.).

Lupino, Ida, 1918-1995.

Lupino, Ida.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2024.

Summary:

An archival study of Ida Lupino’s work in film and television directing, writing, producing, and acting from the 1940s to the 1970s. 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.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

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

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781477330678

1477330674

9781477330661

1477330666

OCLC:

1458759302