A01=Gillian Kelly
Author_Gillian Kelly
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cinematic director
classic Hollywood
classical cinema
early television
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female filmmaker
female screenwriter
film history
Hollywood stardom
Ida Lupino
woman director
Product details
- ISBN 9781526161130
- Weight: 465g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jul 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book contributes to a welcome new wave focusing on the importance of female filmmakers, providing a reappraisal of Ida Lupino, a cinematic figure of significant importance. Given her ability to move between popular and independent cinemas and her status as both a Hollywood star and director/writer/producer of socially relevant films overlooked by the mainstream, Lupino is a particularly interesting case study. Employing a range of critical approaches, including feminist theory, auteur theory and critical theory, this book investigates key themes and motifs that developed across Lupino’s unusual and unique career as one of the most significant female players in film history. Investigating her oeuvre as actress, director, writer and producer, it discusses Lupino as a complex and important filmmaker whose career, on both sides of the camera, requires substantially more critical attention than it has been awarded thus far.
Gillian Kelly is an independent scholar
