"The Battle for the Bs is a highly-readable book that shies away from the jargon that often accompanies film theory, which will make it valuable to students studying film history as well as students who want to learn more about mid-twentieth century cultural history."
~Studies in American Culture
"Trenchantly, Blair Davis upends commonplaces about B-movies as marginal, demonstrating instead their centrality to American cinema and, indeed, to mid-century popular culture overall. A rich, rigorous contribution to film history."
~Dana Polan, New York University
"Blair Davis has rescued low-budget cinema from scholarly neglect with this excellent and persuasive account, a fine example of superior scholarship."
~David Culbert, Louisiana State University
"A fascinating study of post-World War II cinema."
~Journal of American History