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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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Performing Brains on Screen deals with film enactments and representations of the belief that human beings are essentially their brains, a belief that embodies one of the most influential modern ways of understanding the human. Films have performed brains in two chief ways: by turning physical brains into protagonists, as in the "brain movies" of the 1950s, which show terrestrial or extra-terrestrial disembodied brains carrying out their evil intentions; or by giving brains that remain unseen inside someone's head an explicitly major role, as in brain transplantation films or their successors since the 1980s, in which brain contents are transferred and manipulated by means of information technology. Through an analysis of filmic genres and particular movies, Performing Brains on Screen documents this neglected filmic universe, and demonstrates how the cinema has functioned as a cultural space where a core notion of the contemporary world has been rehearsed and problematized.

Human body in motion pictures. --- Neurosciences in motion pictures. --- ART / Film & Video. --- Brain Films, B Movies, Biopolitics, Thought Experiments, Personal Identity. --- Motion pictures --- Body, Human, in motion pictures --- Psychology. --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Philosophy --- Soul --- Mental health

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"Throughout history, the religious imagination has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean; what we do with them, with whom, and under what circumstances; how they may be displayed-or, more commonly, how they must be hidden. Religious belief and mandate affect how our bodies are used in ritual practice, as well as how we use them to identify and marginalize threatening religious Others. This book examines how horror culture treats religious bodies that have stepped (or been pushed) out of their 'proper' place. Unlike most books on religion and horror, This book explores the dark spaces where sex, sexual representation, and the sexual body come together with religious belief and scary stories. Because these intersections of sex, horror, and the religious imagination force us to question the nature of consensus reality, supernatural horror, especially as it concerns the body, often shows us the religious imagination at work in real time. It is important to note that the discussion in this book is not limited either to horror cinema or to popular fiction, but considers a wide range of material, including literary horror, weird fiction, graphic storytelling, visual arts, participative culture, and aspects of real-world religious fear. It is less concerned with horror as a genre (which is mainly a function of marketing) and more with the horror mode, a way of storytelling that finds expression across a number of genres, a variety of media, and even blurs the boundary between fiction and non-fiction. This expanded focus not only deepens the pool of potential examples, but invites a much broader readership in for a swim"--

Horror. --- Human body --- Popular culture --- Religious aspects. --- Alien invasion. --- Ambiguity. --- Anthropology. --- Anti-Catholic nativism. --- Anti-Pagan activism. --- B movies. --- Censorship. --- Clive Barker. --- Clovis Trouille. --- Cosmic horror. --- Cosmic indifference. --- Cthulhu Mythos. --- Devil. --- Dracula. --- Edward Lee. --- Enigma. --- Evolutionary psychology. --- Exploitation. --- Fear. --- Graphic novels. --- H. P. Lovecraft. --- Horror genre. --- Horror mode. --- Human sacrifice. --- Interpretive drift. --- King Kong. --- Legion of Decency. --- Lustmord. --- Margaret Brundage. --- Maria Monk. --- Marquis de Sade. --- Matthew Lewis. --- Monstering. --- Monstrous body. --- Morality. --- Motion Picture Association of America. --- Motion Picture Production Code. --- Nudity. --- Numinous. --- Nun fetish. --- Nunsploitation. --- Pulp fiction. --- Queer horror. --- Realization. --- Religion. --- Religious Imagination. --- Religious imagination. --- Religious questions. --- Riddle. --- Ritual rarity. --- Roger Corman. --- Rudolf Otto. --- Sadeian horror. --- Sex. --- Sexual bodies. --- Sexualized advertising. --- Sigmund Freud. --- Skepticism. --- Spatter horror. --- Stephen King. --- Tanya Luhrmann. --- The Exorcist. --- The Wicker Man. --- The Witch. --- Thomas Rowlandson. --- Weird Tales. --- Witchcraft. --- Wrath James White. --- Sex --- Horror --- Religious aspects