B films

This heading is used as a topical heading for works about low budget feature films that were usually shown in a double feature program along with the major production, the A film. When used as a topical heading it is subdivided by the appropriate geographic, topical, and/or form subdivisions.
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89002636
- info:lc/authorities/sh89002636
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh89002636#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- B movies
- B pictures
Broader Terms
- Low budget films
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb11963477h
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Okuda, T. Grand National, Producers Releasing Corporation, and Screen Guild/Lippert : complete filmographies with studio histories ... 1989.
- found: Katz, E. The film encyclopedia, 1979 (B picture)
- found: LC database, April 25, 1989.
- found: Random House (B-movie, B-picture)
- found: Web. 3 (B-movie, B-picture)
General Notes
- This heading is used as a topical heading for works about low budget feature films that were usually shown in a double feature program along with the major production, the A film. When used as a topical heading it is subdivided by the appropriate geographic, topical, and/or form subdivisions.
Change Notes
- 1989-04-28: new
- 2009-03-12: revised

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