The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget CinemaRutgers University Press, 2012 M04 6 - 280 pages 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.
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The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-budget Cinema Blair Davis No preview available - 2012 |
The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-budget Cinema Blair Davis No preview available - 2012 |