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When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow: Popular Culture and the Rise of Nobrow
Peter Swirski (Ed.)
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Hardback. Editor(s): Swirski, Peter. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book examines nobrow, a cultural formation that intertwines art and entertainment into an identifiable creative force. In our eclectic and culturally turbocharged world, the binary of highbrow vs. lowbrow is incapable of doing justice to the complexity and artistry of cultural production. Until now, the historical power, aesthetic complexity, and social significance of nobrow artertainment have escaped analysis. This book rectifies this oversight. 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.
This book examines nobrow, a cultural formation that intertwines art and entertainment into an identifiable creative force. In our eclectic and culturally turbocharged world, the binary of highbrow vs. lowbrow is incapable of doing justice to the complexity and artistry of cultural production. Until now, the historical power, aesthetic complexity, and social significance of nobrow artertainment have escaped analysis. This book rectifies this oversight. 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
271
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137597724
SKU
V9781137597724
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99-15
About Peter Swirski (Ed.)
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 ... Read more
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