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1 online resource : illustrations |
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| Summary |
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 demographic patterns and marketing approaches, created such genres as science fiction and the teen-oriented films of the early and mid fifties, and led to the emergence of 'New Poverty Row'; a movement now known as underground cinema. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
B films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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B films. |
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United States. |
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures. |
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History. |
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20th century |
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Motion picture industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion picture industry. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Davis, Blair. Battle for the Bs : 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-budget Cinema. Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, ©2012 |
| ISBN |
9780813553245 (electronic book) |
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0813553245 (electronic book) |
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9780813552521 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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9780813552538 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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1280493399 |
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9781280493393 |
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0813552524 |
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0813552532 |
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