Title: Death on the cheap : the lost B movies of film noir /
Authors: Lyons, Arthur.; Petievich, Gerald.
Publisher: Da Capo Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Film noir United States History and criticism; B films United States History and criticism.
Abstract: "In Death on the Cheap, Arthur Lyons looks at the history of the B movie and how it led to the genre that would come to be called noir, a genre that decades later would be transformed in such "neo-noir" films as Pulp Fiction, Fargo, and L.A. Confidential. The book, loaded with movie stills, also features a filmography (including video sources) of B films that have largely been ignored or neglected - "lost" to the general public but now restored to their rightful place in movie history thanks to Death on the Cheap."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Film noir: it's all in the story -- Roots: the boys in the back room -- Attack of the killer B's -- The emergence of the B noir -- Poverty row: the B factories -- The final decade: the demise of the B.