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The Battle for the Bs : 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget Cinema /

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
Autor principal: Davis, Blair, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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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