The term middlebrow describes middlebrow art, which is easily accessible art, usually popular literature, and middlebrow people who use the arts to acquire...
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The term highbrow is considered by some (with corresponding labels as 'middlebrow' 'lowbrow') as discerning or selective; and highbrow is currently distanced...
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spawned in the earnest mid-'60s, before popular culture swallowed up the middlebrow and 'educational TV' became a comical oxymoron." Time Volume 154, Issues...
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into the MOR wilderness." Full service radio Album-oriented rock (AOR) Middlebrow MOR Music TV, a defunct music video channel with a home shopping element...
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particularly in terms of the difference between the interests of the "middlebrow" populace versus other listeners. Interest in arena rock is stereotypically...
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Sweet Sophistisoul". Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music. University of California Press. p. 260. ISBN 978-0520300118...
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impressionable boys". Pauline Kael was unconvinced about the film and its "middlebrow highmindedness", but praised Williams. "Robin Williams'[s] performance...
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Una Lucy Silberrad (section Middlebrow/Middle class)
a British author. She wrote about 40 novels, often characterized as "middlebrow", which highlight conservative middle-class virtues even as they focus...
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stores such as Woolworth's. Penguin aimed at an educated middle class "middlebrow" audience. It avoided the downscale image of American paperbacks. The...
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alternative was a music characterized by Simon Reynolds as "moribund, middlebrow Electro-Trance music, as represented by Frankfurt's own Sven Väth and...
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stated. "Titanic has flaws, but for all its legacy, it's better than its middlebrow reputation would have you believe. It's a great movie for 15-year-old...
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Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan in their book Canadian Television Today, as middlebrow "nationalist pandering." The "Greatest Canadian" was chosen through a...
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Howland, John (2021). Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-30010-1...
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October 20, 2015. Harker, Jaime (2007). America the Middlebrow: Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship Between the Wars. Univ of Massachusetts...
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net-art works. Her work deals with issues of class, gender, sexuality, and middlebrow aesthetics. In 2021, Ulman made her feature film debut, with El Planeta...
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commentators (Rorem and Poirier) looking to establish themselves over their "low-middlebrow" equivalent, after Time and Newsweek had led the way in recognising the...
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talented cast, the result lacks Wilde's trademark bite; it's soft and middlebrow, even though he was anything but . . . Although transposing this story...
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Keyser, "Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker 'In Broadway Playhouses': Middlebrow Theatricality and Sophisticated Humour". Modernist Cultures, Volume 6...
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Laffly, rating the film 3 out of 4 stars, praised it as "the kind of middlebrow, big-screen period piece that used to occupy our theater screens regularly...
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give such magnetic performances that they elevate the film way above its middlebrow sensibility and proclivity for neat resolutions... In the first reel,...
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and I rocked him each time. Inspired by Bill Cosby, Pryor began as a middlebrow comic, with material less controversial than what was to come. He began...
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unsophisticated entertainment Highbrow, synonymous with intellectual Middlebrow, describes both a certain type of easily accessible art, often literature...
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of the last twenty years. With Larkin poetry is on its way back to the middlebrow public." Reviewing the book in America, the poet Robert Lowell wrote:...
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the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina...
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audiences. Other critics considered that it was too culturally sanitized, "middlebrow" and superficial; Philip Roth, writing in The New Yorker, called it shtetl...
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calls Newton, specifically referring to "Amazing Grace", an "unashamedly middlebrow lyricist writing for a lowbrow congregation", noting that only twenty-one...
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spend as few hours awake as possible, lulling herself with pills and middlebrow movies she plays on repeat on her VCR, until the aging machine breaks...
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music was linked, and labeled it, in Dickstein's words, as "hopelessly middlebrow, a dumbing down of art into toothless entertainment." They often linked...
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Fire, Gandhi, The Killing Fields and A Room with a View appealed to a "middlebrow" audience which was increasingly being ignored by the major Hollywood...
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January/February 2007. Klein, Christina. Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945–1961. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003...
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