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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 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780306815669)
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xWhat 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?
BR> The answers: This book. The National Society of Film Critics. And the far-reaching enticements of the B movie itself.
BR> 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".
BR> The films in The B List are offbeat, unpredictable, and decidedly idiosyncratic. And that's why we love them.
Author: David Sterritt
ISBN-10: 0306815664
ISBN-13: 9780306815669
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2008
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reference Reviews-Adult 09/01/2008 pg. 1
BR> The answers: This book. The National Society of Film Critics. And the far-reaching enticements of the B movie itself.
BR> 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".
BR> The films in The B List are offbeat, unpredictable, and decidedly idiosyncratic. And that's why we love them.
Author: David Sterritt
ISBN-10: 0306815664
ISBN-13: 9780306815669
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2008
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reference Reviews-Adult 09/01/2008 pg. 1
By David Sterritt
xDavid Sterritt is chairman of the National Society of Film Critics and a film professor at Columbia University. He lives in Baltimore. John Anderson writes regularly for Variety, the New York Times, and Newsday. He lives in Los Angeles.
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