TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis,Blair
TI  - The battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the rebirth of low-budget cinema 
SN  - 9780813553245
AV  - PN1995.9.B2 D38 2012
U1  - 791.430973 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - B films
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Motion picture industry
KW  - Films de série B
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Cinéma
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - ART
KW  - Film & Video
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS
KW  - Reference
KW  - History & Criticism
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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