"[A] landmark study of this underrecognized director. . . . Grisham and Grossman do not consider their subject narrowly as a woman filmmaker. They present Lupino broadly as a pioneer independent moviemaker and director." - Film Quarterly
"A detailed and readable account of Lupino as a filmmaker whose work and contributions deserve greater attention in an industry still overly dominated by the male gaze. This volume should encourage further scholarship on the life and work of a pioneering filmmaker." - The Journal of American Culture
"Groundbreaking and judiciously comprehensive." - South Atlantic Review
"Recommended." - Choice
"Ida Lupino, Director fulfils a grand job in keeping her achievements in the public eye."- Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
"An intelligent, thorough, and engaging book that expands our understanding of Ida Lupino's career as a director, from a frequently simplistic view of her as 'a woman in a man's profession' to her as a unique artist in her own right. Lupino's socially conscious themes (which often required tricky dealings with the Breen Office) and savvy grasp of Hollywood economics are given due credit. Grisham and Grossman examine Lupino's directing within the context of classic Hollywood, of feminism, and of auteurism, showing her vital importance to all of them." - Farran Smith Nehme, film critic and historian
"Exactly the serious study Ida Lupino deserves, this superb book sketches her directing career against larger developments in postwar Hollywood, demonstrating her feminist impact on a changing industry." - Shelley Stamp, author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood
"Lupino's work has never received its full due. Grisham and Grossman's sensitive study, informed by thorough research and new paradigms, provides a welcome corrective." - Sarah Kozloff, author of Overhearing Film Dialogue
"One of Hollywood's few female directors, Ida Lupino was a true maverick, making movies with the same steely determination and emotional sensitivity that characterized her work as an actor. Grisham and Grossman's thoughtful study sheds a welcome light on an oeuvre that has been too long obscured." - J. Hoberman, author of Film After Film: Or, What Became Of 21st Century Cinema?
"An urgently needed and long overdue reclamation of the directorial work of Ida Lupino, one of the most significant auteurs of the twentieth century. Cineastes will be delighted by this dazzling, well written, and comprehensive book." - Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, coauthor of A Short History of Film
