# The B List

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- Book: [The B List](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-d-anderson/the-b-list) ([The B List.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-d-anderson/the-b-list.md))
- Authors: [John D. Anderson](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-d-anderson), [David Sterritt](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-sterritt)
- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- ISBN: 978-03-0681-566-9
- Published: 2008-10-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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