Ida Lupino, Filmmaker

Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida, USA, where he has taught since earning his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author or editor of five books and has published approximately four dozen scholarly essays. He has lectured nationally and internationally on 20th-century literature and film and is the founding editor of The Mailer Review. He has published essays on the films of Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, Edgar Ulmer, Joseph H. Lewis, Robert Wiene, Ida Lupino, and Norman Mailer.

• PrefaceGary D. Rhodes (The Queen's University of Belfast, Ireland)ForewordCynthia Miller (Emerson College, USA)1. All Sides of the CameraPhillip Sipiora (University of South Florida, USA)2. Beyond the Performance: American Stages and the Business of ShowKaren McNally (London Metropolitan University, UK) 3. Ida Lupino: A Life in HollywoodWilliam T. Ross (University of South Florida, USA)4. Overlooked and Under-Represented: The Essential LupinoCourtney J. Ruffner Grieneisen (State College of Florida, USA)5. “A Big Family of Little Failures”: Post War America's Children and Ida Lupino's Not WantedJulie Grossman (Le Moyne College, USA)6. (Not So) “Vicious and Depraved”: Ida Lupino's Portraits of MenMarlisa Santos (Nova Southeastern University, USA)7. Accidental Outlaw: Agency and Genre in The BigamistMichael L. Shuman (University of South Florida, USA)8. Ida Lupino’s Moral Filmmaking: The Bigamist and The Trouble with AngelsAshley M. Donnelly (Ball State University, USA)9. Ida Lupino’s Manipulation of Age ConventionsValerie Barnes Lipscomb (University of South Florida at Sarasota Manatee, USA)10. Ida Lupino and Acting: Situating Performance in Cinematic Context(s)Curtis LeVan (University of South Florida, USA)11. Against the Grain, Within the Frame: The Double Consciousness of Ida LupinoMary Lynn Navarro (Kingsborough Community College, USA)12. Outrage and Trauma: A Reconsideration and Re-evaluationKathleen Robinson (Eckerd College, USA)13. The Hitch-Hiker: Being and DarknessPhillip Sipiora (University of South Florida, USA)14. Unsolicited Bequest: Ambivalent Inheritance in Ida Lupino’s 1960s MysteriesAnn Torrusio (Pierre Laclede Honors College at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, USA)15. A Subtle Subversion: Ida Lupino Directing TelevisionAdam Breckenridge (New England Institute of Technology, USA)16. Ida Lupino's Thrillers: The Terror of the “Lethal Woman”Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)Index

This book is an extremely timely and much-needed addition to the growing corpus of works on female filmmakers. A most welcome intervention in the scholarship on Ida Lupino, female directors, Hollywood history and Hollywood gender politics