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...
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, historian...
Screening World Cinema brings together a selection of the best articles on the topic of world cinema published in the esteemed Screen journal.
Available in one volume for the first time, this collection allows readers to cross-reference debates and essays that have ranged across many issues of Screen. Themes addressed include:
the problem of defining world cinema
the relationship between first and third cinema and criticism
issues of modernity and modernization
questions of national and transnational cinema.
With a selection of articles on key...
Screening World Cinema brings together a selection of the best articles on the topic of world cinema published in the esteemed Screen journal.
Screening World Cinema brings together a selection of the best articles on the topic of world cinema published in the esteemed Screen journal.
Available in one volume for the first time, this collection allows readers to cross-reference debates and essays that have ranged across many issues of Screen. Themes addressed include:
the problem of defining 'world cinema'
the relationship between 'first' and 'third' cinema and criticism
issues of modernity and modernization
questions of national and transnational...
Screening World Cinema brings together a selection of the best articles on the topic of world cinema published in the esteemed Screen<...
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...
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, historian...
First published in 1988. This book shows how censorship as a set of institutions, practices and discourses was involved in the struggle over the nature of cinema in the early twentieth century. It also reveals the part played in this struggle by other institutions, practices and discourses -- for example 'new' knowledge about sexuality and organisations devoted to the promotion of public morality. Instead of censorship simply being an act of prohibition by a special institution, this work reveals the issues at work were far more complex and contradictory -- opening up critical scrutiny and...
First published in 1988. This book shows how censorship as a set of institutions, practices and discourses was involved in the struggle over the na...
Analyses a wide range of film and still photographs to explore culturally dominant images and how they work. Extensively illustrated, this challenging collection of essays is essential reading for all students of media and women's studies.
Analyses a wide range of film and still photographs to explore culturally dominant images and how they work. Extensively illustrated, this challenging...
