The battle for the Bs : 1950's Hollywood and the rebirth of low-budget cinema /
Blair Davis.
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2012.
- x, 260 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction Hollywood in transition: the business of 1950s filmmaking The battle begins: Hollywood reacts, poverty row collapses The rebirth of the B-movie in the 1950s Attack of the independent: American international pictures and the B-movie Small screen, smaller pictures: new perspectives on 1950s television and B-movies Big 'B', little 'B': a case study of three films Notes from the underground : the legacy of the 1950s B-movie.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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B films--History and criticism.--United States Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century.