Amelie Hastie s study of The Bigamist (1953) directed by and starring Ida Lupino, shows how the film combines elements of noir and melodrama to tell the story of salesman Harry Graham s "double life." Hastie considers the movie as a piece of independent cinema at a time when the Hollywood studio system was beginning to dissolve, as a film about gender and marriage in the context of gender relations in post-War America, and in terms of Lupino s personal and professional history. "
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Amelie Hastie s study of The Bigamist (1953) directed by and starring Ida Lupino, shows how the film combines elements of noir and melodrama to tell the story of salesman Harry Graham s "double life." Hastie considers the movie as a piece of independent cinema at a time when the Hollywood studio system was beginning to dissolve, as a film about gender and marriage in the context of gender relations in post-War America, and in terms of Lupino s personal and professional history. "
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