{"product_id":"9781844572663","title":"The Bigamist","description":"\u003cbr\u003eDirected by the actor\/film-maker Ida Lupino, \u003cem\u003eThe Bigamist\u003c\/em\u003e (1953) is the story of Harry Graham, a salesman travelling between two towns and two wives. In its portrayal of Harry's 'double life', the film takes on a double life of its own, hovering as it does between two genres. Telling the story through Harry's voice-over, yet eschewing the iconic character of the \u003cem\u003efemme fatale\u003c\/em\u003e, Lupino's film reveals and recasts film noir as male melodrama \u003cem\u003epar excellence\u003c\/em\u003e. In its rendering of this emotionally paralysed man, \u003cem\u003eThe Bigamist\u003c\/em\u003e is a fascinating study of the post-War male. \u003cp\u003eA collaborative affair, \u003cem\u003eThe Bigamist\u003c\/em\u003e was written and produced by Lupino's ex-husband Collier Young, co-starring his current wife, Joan Fontaine, as bride number one, with Lupino in a turn as bride number two. The last offive films that Lupino directed for the independent production company that she co-founded, The Filmakers, it was notably the only film of its period with a woman director who also played a starring role.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmelie Hastie explores the film in the context of Lupino's personal and professional history. This is a film, Hastie argues, that reveals the changing structure of Hollywood film production in light of the emergence of independent studies; it delineates the life and exemplifies the work of one of only two women directors in the 'Classical' Hollywood era; and it provides a complex commentary on the fantasies and fear of mid-century domestic life in the USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmelie Hastie is Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eCupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection and Film History\u003c\/em\u003e (2007).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BFI Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057677156592,"sku":"9781844572663","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781844572663_p0.jpg?v=1763742543","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781844572663","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}