Ida Lupino, Director shines a long-awaited spotlight on one of our greatest filmmakers, one whose movies depicted the plights of postwar women and exposed the dark underside of American society. The authors show Lupino as a trailblazing feminist auteur who created a distinctive style in film and television that was both highly expressionistic and grittily realistic.

Preface 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 ScreenMr. Adams and Eve Directed Episodes, 1956–1968 Comedies Action, Thrillers, Mysteries Westerns Notes Works Cited Index