The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the rebirth of low-budget cinema

Deutsch, James I.

doi:10.1080/01439685.2014.914664

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“…But this fixed risk and reward system ended with a 1948 United States Supreme Court ruling which prohibited the practice of block buying. As Blair Davis (2012) argues, this shifted the nature of B movie making, and led to the beginning of independent film making in the United States.…”

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The ethnographic B movie: Centering the uncertain, absurd and low quality in collaborative filmmaking

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This paper discusses an experimental modality of ethnographic filmmaking that my interlocutor/collaborator and I came to call the ‘ethnographic B movie’. I explore what I mean by the term and describe its use as novel approach to collaborative multimodal research. I argue that this approach – which encourages unprofessionalism, low quality, absurdity and caprice – provides an opportunity to centre research contexts, ontologies and epistemologies on the fringes or margins of conventional anthropological content, thought and context. Through situating the approach within ideas of arts-based research or research-creation the ethnographic B movie becomes a way to take the process of filmmaking as ethnography for the sake of an open and co-imaginative world. In the ethnographic B movie as filmic approach and representational frame, communicable meaning and narrative coherence are substituted for the spirit of co-creation, and interlocutor-driven content.

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The ethnographic B movie: Centering the uncertain, absurd and low quality in collaborative filmmaking

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