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

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ISBN 10: 0306815664 ISBN 13: 9780306815669

Casa editrice: Da Capo Press, 2008

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

David 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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Da Capo Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0306815664
• ISBN 13: 9780306815669
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Redattore: Sterritt David
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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