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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Therese Grisham , Julie GrossmanPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.399kg ISBN: 9780813574905ISBN 10: 0813574900 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 23 May 2017 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Note on Quotations Part I. Introducing Ida Lupino, Director and Feminist Author 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 Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsOne of Hollywood s few female directors, Ida Lupino was a true maverick, making movies with the same steely determination and emotional sensitivity that characterized her work as an actor. Therese Grisham and Julie Grossman s thoughtful study sheds a welcome light on an oeuvre that has been too long obscured. --J. Hoberman author of Film After Film: Or, What Became Of 21st Century Cinema? One of Hollywood's few female directors, Ida Lupino was a true maverick, making movies with the same steely determination and emotional sensitivity that characterized her work as an actor. Therese Grisham and Julie Grossman's thoughtful study sheds a welcome light on an oeuvre that has been too long obscured. --J. Hoberman author of Film After Film: Or, What Became Of 21st Century Cinema? Grossman and Grisham's book is an urgently needed and long overdue reclamation of the directorial work of Ida Lupino, one of the most significant auteurs of the twentieth century. Cineastes will be delighted by this dazzling, well written, and comprehensive book. --Gwendolyn Audrey Foster coauthor of A Short History of Film Author InformationTHERESE GRISHAM is a lecturer in film and media studies in the department of humanities at Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, Illinois, as well as an instructor at the Facets Multimedia Film School in Chicago. She is also an editor for the English translations of The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg (Verso). JULIE GROSSMAN is a professor of English, and communication and film studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. Her books include Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir, and Literature, Film, and Their Hideous Progeny. She is also a coeditor of the forthcoming collection Adaptation in Visual Culture: Images, Texts, and Their Multiple Worlds. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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