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B List The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love

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ISBN-10: 0306815664

ISBN-13: 9780306815669

Edition: 2008

Authors: David Sterritt, John C. Anderson, John C. Anderson

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What kind of collection could possibly find common ground among The Son of Kong, Platoon, and Pink Flamingos? What kind of fevered minds could conceive of such a list? What are the unheard-of qualities that tie them all together? The answers: This book. The National Society of Film Critics. And the far-reaching enticements of the B movie itself. Once the B movie was the Hollywood stepchild, the underbelly of the double feature. Today it is a more inclusive category, embracing films that fall outside the mainstream by dint of their budgets, their visions, their grit, and occasionallysometimes essentiallytheir lack of what the culture cops call "good taste." The films in The B List are…    
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 10/7/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.94" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

John C. Anderson holds a law degree and a doctoral degree in philosophy from The Catholic University of America, and practiced law for five years in Washington, D. C. An independent scholar, he now works for the Army.

Out of the Shadows - Film Noir
Nightmares in Technicolor - Neo-Noir
From Grindhouse to Art House - Madness and Melodrama
The Allure of the Unknown - Science Fictions
Dark and Disturbing Dreams - Films of Horror and Terror
Burning Up the Blacktop - Road Movies
Gunfighter Nation - The Wild Western
Up Against the Wall! - Political Pictures
Whole Lotta Shakin' - Rock, Pop, and Beyond
Provocation and Perversity - Cult Classics
Transgressive Chic - The World of Midnight Movies
Notes On Contributors
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