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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Blair, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures.
Motion picture industry.
B films.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
ART > Film & Video.
Cinema > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Films de serie B > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Motion picture industry > United States > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
B films > United States > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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