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

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

The emergence of the double-bill in the 1930s created a divide between A-pictures and B-pictures as theaters...
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Author: Blair Davis
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The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget Cinema by Davis, Blair

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

Dhs. 316.26

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

Dhs. 316.26
Author: Blair Davis
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The emergence of the double-bill in the 1930s created a divide between A-pictures and B-pictures as theaters typically screened packages featuring one of each. With the former considered more prestigious because of their larger budgets and more popular actors, the lower-budgeted Bs served largely as a support mechanism to A-films of the major studios--most of which also owned the theater chains in which movies were shown. When a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court antitrust ruling severed ownership of theaters from the studios, the B-movie soon became a different entity in the wake of profound changes to the corporate organization and production methods of the major Hollywood studios.

In The Battle for the Bs, Blair Davis analyzes how B-films were produced, distributed, and exhibited in the 1950s and demonstrates the possibilities that existed for low-budget filmmaking at a time when many in Hollywood had abandoned the Bs. Made by newly formed independent companies, 1950s B-movies took advantage of changing demographic patterns to fashion innovative marketing approaches. They established such genre cycles as science fiction and teen-oriented films (think Destination Moon and I Was a Teenage Werewolf) well before the major studios and also contributed to the emergence of the movement now known as underground cinema. Although frequently proving to be multimillion-dollar box-office draws by the end of the decade, the Bs existed in opposition to the cinematic mainstream in the 1950s and created a legacy that was passed on to independent filmmakers in the decades to come.

Author: Blair Davis
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 04/05/2012
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.96w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780813552538

About the Author

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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