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The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget Cinema
The Battle for the Bs 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of LowBudget Cinema
Author: Blair Davis
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 st...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780813552538
ISBN-10: 0813552532
Publication Date: 4/5/2012
Pages: 280
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Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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