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When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow

Popular Culture and the Rise of Nobrow
BuchGebunden
271 Seiten
Englisch
Springer Palgrave Macmillanerschienen am29.06.20171st ed. 2017
This book examines nobrow, a cultural formation that intertwines art and entertainment into an identifiable creative force. Smart, funny, and iconoclastic, it scrutinizes the many faces of nobrow, throwing surprising light on the hazards and rewards of traffic between high entertainment and genre art.mehr
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Produkt

KlappentextThis book examines nobrow, a cultural formation that intertwines art and entertainment into an identifiable creative force. Smart, funny, and iconoclastic, it scrutinizes the many faces of nobrow, throwing surprising light on the hazards and rewards of traffic between high entertainment and genre art.
Zusammenfassung
Edited by an award-winning expert in the field

Examines a wide range of "nobrow" texts

Adopts a lively and accessible style, in keeping with its subject
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-137-59772-4
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2017
Erscheinungsdatum29.06.2017
Auflage1st ed. 2017
Seiten271 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht497 g
IllustrationenXVI, 271 p. 1 illus.
Artikel-Nr.41972635

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction - Browbeaten into Pulp: Nobrow Positions and Oppositions; Peter Swirski and Tero Eljas Vanhanen.- 2. Pop Culture and Nobrow Culture - From Li´l Abner to Discourse Theory and Back: A Culture Critic´s Odyssey; Arthur Berger.- 3. Nobrow, American Style: From Goldilocks to the Golden Mean; Peter Swirski.- 4. Middlebrow and Nobrow: Tracing Patterns Across Culture; Beth Driscoll.- 5. Prequels to Nobrow: Battles of the Brows from Socrates to Cervantes; Kenneth Krabbenhoft.- 6. Gothic Literature in America: The Nobrow Aesthetics of Murder and Madness.- Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet.- 7. Neither Indian Reservation Nor Baboon Patriarchy: Science Fiction as Nobrow Phenomenon; Nicholas Ruddick.- 8. Mambo Clothing and Australian Nobrow: Wearable Art for a Global Audience; Christopher McAuliffe.- 9. Guilty Pleasures, orNobrow Treasures? Popular Judgment and the Affective Economy of Taste; David McAvoy.- 10. The Good, the Bad, and the Nobrow: Structures of Taste and Distaste in the Nobrow Age; Tero Eljas Vanhanen.- Bibliography.- Index.-mehr

Autor

Peter Swirski is Distinguished Professor of American Studies and American Literature. Listed in Canadian Who's Who, he is a multiple Amazon bestseller in his field and author of sixteen award-winning books, including From Lowbrow to Nobrow (2005) and American Crime Fiction: A Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art (2016).

Tero Eljas Vanhanen is a researcher and lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His has published in, among others, Philosophy and Literature, SubStance, and the Journal of American Studies.

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