Ida Lupino

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.