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The battle for the Bs

Davis, Blair, 1975-

The battle for the Bs 1950s Hollywood and the rebirth of low-budget cinema / [electronic resource] : Blair Davis. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (280 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Hollywood in transition: the business of 1950s filmmaking -- The battle begins: Hollywood reacts, poverty row collapses -- The rebirth of the B-movie in the 1950s -- Attack of the independent: American international pictures and the B-movie -- Small screen, smaller pictures: new perspectives on 1950s television and B-movies -- Big 'B', little 'B': a case study of three films -- Notes from the underground : the legacy of the 1950s B-movie.

9780813553245 0813553245


Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century.
B films--History and criticism.--United States


Electronic books.

PN1995.9.B2 / D38 2012

791.430973