The battle for the Bs [electronic resource] : 1950s Hollywood and the rebirth of low-budget cinema / Blair Davis.

Introduction
Hollywood in transition: the business of 1950s filmmaking
The battle begins: Hollywood reacts, poverty row collapses
The rebirth of the B-movie in the 1950s
Attack of the independent: American international pictures and the B-movie
Small screen, smaller pictures: new perspectives on 1950s television and B-movies
Big 'B', little 'B': a case study of three films
Notes from the underground : the legacy of the 1950s B-movie.