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

by Sterritt, David
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ISBN: 9780306815669
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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 occasionally--sometimes essentially--their lack of what the culture cops call "good taste."

The films in The B List are offbeat, unpredictable, and decidedly idiosyncratic. And that's why we love them.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Sterritt, David
  • ISBN: 9780306815669
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.90 x 0.80
  • Number Of Pages: 256
  • Publication Year: 2008

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