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The B list : the National Society of Film Critics on the low-budget beauties, genre-bending mavericks, and cult classics we love / edited by David Sterritt and John Anderson.
- Title
- The B list : the National Society of Film Critics on the low-budget beauties, genre-bending mavericks, and cult classics we love / edited by David Sterritt and John Anderson.
- Publication
- Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, c2008.
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- Description
- xiii, 240 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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 occasionally - sometimes essentially - their lack of what the culture cops call "good taste."" "Featuring the choicest noir, neo-noir, science fiction, horror, western, midnight movies, and more - from critics like David Ansen, Jami Bernard, Roger Ebert, Carrie Rickey, Richard Schickel, and Kenneth Turan - the films in The B List are offbeat, unpredictable, and decidedly idiosyncratic."--Jacket.
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- Reviews
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- FILM NOIR. Detour -- Gun crazy -- Out of the past -- Pickup on South Street -- Kiss me deadly -- Crime wave -- Murder by contract -- The well -- NIGHTMARES IN TECHNICOLOR: NEO-NOIR. Reservoir dogs -- The last seduction -- One false move -- Point blank -- To live and die in L.A. -- Croupier -- FROM GRINDHOUSE TO ART HOUSE: MADNESS & MELODRAMA. Grindhouse -- Peeping Tom -- The conversation -- The stepfather -- Pretty poison -- SCIENCE FICTION. Invasion of the body snatchers -- The brother from another planet -- Primer -- Red planet Mars -- The space children -- HORROR & TERROR FILMS. Tales from the crypt -- The fly -- Carrie 2 -- The son of Kong -- I walked with a zombie -- May -- ROAD MOVIES. Stranger than paradise -- Two-lane blacktop -- Vanishing point -- The big bus -- WESTERNS. The naked spur, Man of the West -- Will Penny -- Seven men from now -- Forty guns -- POLITICAL PICTURES. -- Platoon -- Salvador -- The president's analyst -- Man on a string -- Heroes for sale -- ROCK, POP and BEYOND. The Buddy Holly story -- King Creole -- American hot wax -- The girl can't help it -- Greendale -- CULT CLASSICS. Videodrome -- Vampire's kiss -- The core -- Beat the devil -- Mona -- MIDNIGHT MOVIES. Pink flamingos -- The rocky horror picture show -- Targets -- Night of the living dead -- Eraserhead.
- ISBN
- 0306815664 (alk. paper)
- 9780306815669 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008011055
- OCLC
- 213375890
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library