Analyses 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 Bs. 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.
Analyses 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 Bs. 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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
BLAIR DAVIS is an assistant professor in the College of Communication at DePaul University. His essays appear in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television and the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, and in such anthologies as American Horror Film, Caligari’s Heirs, and Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear.
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Acknowledgments The Bs Take Flight: An Introduction 1. Hollywood in Transition: The Business of 1950s Filmmaking 2. The Battle Begins: Hollywood Reacts, Poverty Row Collapses 3. The Rebirth of the B-Movie in the 1950s 4. Attack of the Independent: American International Pictures and the B-Movie 5. Small Screen, Smaller Pictures: New Perspectives on 1950s Television and B-Movies 6. Big B, Little b: A Case Study of Three Films 7. Notes from the Underground: The Legacy of the 1950s B-Movie Notes Index
Acknowledgments The Bs Take Flight: An Introduction 1. Hollywood in Transition: The Business of 1950s Filmmaking 2. The Battle Begins: Hollywood Reacts, Poverty Row Collapses 3. The Rebirth of the B-Movie in the 1950s 4. Attack of the Independent: American International Pictures and the B-Movie 5. Small Screen, Smaller Pictures: New Perspectives on 1950s Television and B-Movies 6. Big B, Little b: A Case Study of Three Films 7. Notes from the Underground: The Legacy of the 1950s B-Movie Notes Index
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