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Sensationalism in motion pictures --- Low budget films

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The emergence of the double-bill in the 1930's 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 1950's and demonstrates the possibilities that existed for low-budget filmmaking at a time when many in Hollywood had abandoned the B's. Made by newly formed independent companies, 1950's 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 1950's and created a legacy that was passed on to independent filmmakers in the decades to come.

Motion pictures --- B films --- B movies --- B pictures --- Low budget films --- History --- History and criticism.

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Experimental films --- Low budget films --- Independent filmmakers --- -History and criticism --- Biography

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Experimental films --- Independent filmmakers --- Low budget films --- History and criticism. --- United States --- History and criticism --- Low budget motion pictures --- Biography --- -History and criticism

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Motion picture producers and directors --- Independent filmmakers --- Low budget films. --- Motion pictures --- Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma --- Réalisateurs de cinéma indépendants --- Films à petit budget --- Cinéma --- Biography. --- Production and direction. --- Biographies --- Biographie --- Production et réalisation