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

by 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 studios--most of which also owned the theater chains in which movies were shown. When a 1948 U.S. Supreme...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813552532
• ISBN13: 9780813552538
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary