The battle for the Bs : 1950s Hollywood and the rebirth of low-budget cinema /

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In The Battle for the Bs, Blair Davis analyzes how B-films were produced, distributed, and exhibited in the 1950s and demonstrates the new possibilities that existed for low-budget filmmaking at a time when many in Hollywood abandoned the Bs. B-movies innovated such industrial components as demograp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Blair, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2012.
Temas:
1900-1999
B films > United States > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
Motion picture industry > United States > History > 20th century.
Films de série B > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Cinéma > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Cinéma > Industrie > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
B films
Motion picture industry
Motion pictures
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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