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

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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.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009K47V54
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Da Capo Press (October 20, 2008)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 20, 2008
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1043 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 258 pages