Queen of the 'B's

Queen of the 'B's

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Book Description
Although Ida Lupino is best known as a leading actress in many Hollywood B movies, her work as a filmmaker has been neglected by critics, historians, and audiences. In the late 1940s, Lupino turned writer, producer, and director in her own independent production company. The films she made, beginning with Not Wanted in 1949, were low-budget pictures taking an uncompromising approach to controversial subject matter -- unmarried motherhood, disability, rape, bigamy. Lupino is exceptional as the only woman to have directed a visible body of films in the male-dominated Hollywood of the 1950s. The continuation of that directorial career in television throughout the 1960s strengthens the claim that Lupino is the most prolific and creatively powerful woman director ever to have worked in the moving image industry.

About the Author
ANNETTE KUHN teaches film and television studies at the University of Glasgow, and has written widely on cultural theory, feminism and cinema, and film history.

Queen of the 'B's,Annette Kuhn,Praeger Paperback,0275953327,Communication,Film & Video - General,Language,Language Arts & Disciplines,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication

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