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The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget Cinema

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The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget Cinema - Davis, Blair, Professor
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In The Battle for the B's , 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 B's. 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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The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget Cinema 2012, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

ISBN-13: 9780813552538

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