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Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur - Alexandra Seros

Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur

From Film Noir to the Director's Chair

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Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2024
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-3065-4 (ISBN)
CHF 59,95 inkl. MwSt
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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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.12.2024
Zusatzinfo 35 b&w photos
Verlagsort Austin, TX
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
ISBN-10 1-4773-3065-8 / 1477330658
ISBN-13 978-1-4773-3065-4 / 9781477330654
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