Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (524 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813574900 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Amazon Customer said Ida Lupino this says it all. Finally, a book on Ida Lupino directing! Great title - she was an artist, resilient and in transition If you want to know everything on Lupino directing you need to read this book! There is so much detail, research, and new insight to her directing style. - THE ESTATE OF IDA LUPINO
"A landmark study of this underrecognized director. They present Lupino broadly as a pioneer independent moviemaker and director.". The book couldn't be timelier… Grisham and Grossman do not consider their subject narrowly as a woman filmmaker
But Ida Lupino bucked the system, writing and directing a string of movies that exposed the dark underside of American society, on topics such as rape, polio, unwed motherhood, bigamy, exploitative sports, and serial murder. Ida Lupino, Director not only examines her work as a cinematic auteur, but also offers a serious consideration of her diverse and long-ranging career, getting her start in Hollywood as an actress in her teens and twenties, directing her first films in her early thirties, and later working as an acclaimed director of television westerns, sitcoms, and suspense dramas. It also demonstrates how Lupino fused generic elements of film noir and the social problem film to create a distinctive directorial style that was both highly expressionistic and grittily realistic. . Ida Lupino, Director thus shines a long-awaited spotlight on one of our greatest filmmakers. Dominated by men and bound by the restrictive Hays Code, postwar Hollywood offered little support for a female director who sought to make unique films on c