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

By:

Davis, Blair, 1975-

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813553245
0813553245
9786613588623
6613588628

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Battle for the Bs : 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-budget Cinema.DDC classification:

791.430973 23

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.B2 D38 2012

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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.

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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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.