The battle for the Bs 1950s Hollywood and the rebirth of low-budget cinema /
The emergence of the double-bill in the 1930's created a divide between A-pictures and B-pictures as theaters typically screened packages featuring one of each. With the former considered more prestigious because of their larger budgets and more popular actors, the lower-budgeted Bs served larg...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2012
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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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