The battle for the Bs
Subtitle: 1950s Hollywood and the rebirth of low-budget cinema
By: Blair Davis
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780813552521; 9780813552538; 9780813553245
Subjects: B films; Motion pictures; History and criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Hollywood in transition: the business of 1950s filmmaking; title: The battle begins: Hollywood reacts, poverty row collapses; title: The rebirth of the B-movie in the 1950s; title: Attack of the independent: American international pictures and the B-movie; title: Small screen, smaller pictures: new perspectives on 1950s television and B-movies; title: Big 'B', little 'B': a case study of three films; title: Notes from the underground : the legacy of the 1950s B-movie.