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CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix The Bs Take Flight: An Introduction 1 1 Hollywood in Transition: The Business 19 of 1950s Filmmaking 2 The Battle Begins: Hollywood Reacts, 43 Poverty Row Collapses 3 The Rebirth of the B-Movie in the 1950s 67 4 Attack of the Independent: American International 103 Pictures and the B-Movie 5 Small Screen, Smaller Pictures: New Perspectives 131 on 1950s Television and B-Movies 6 Big B, Little b: A Case Study of Three Films 164 7 Notes from the Underground: The Legacy 201 of the 1950s B-Movie Notes 217 Index 249 ...

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