Death on the cheap
Subtitle: the lost B movies of film noir
By: by Arthur Lyons ; preface by Gerald Petievich
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Cambridge, MA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780306809965
Subjects: B films; History and criticism; Film noir
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes filmography (p. 67-162).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-200) and index.
Table of contents: title: Film noir: it's all in the story; title: Roots: the boys in the back room; title: Attack of the killer B's; title: The emergence of the B noir; title: Poverty row: the B factories; title: The final decade: the demise of the B; title: Filmography; title: Epilogue.