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, 2016 "Middlebrow Cinema challenges an often uninterrogated hostility to middlebrow culture that frequently dismisses it as conservative, which it often is not, and feminized or middle-class, which it often is. The volume defines the term relationally against shifting concepts of ‘high’ and ‘low’, and considers its deployment in connection with text ...
Guo, T
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Windows of Cognition : Contemporary French Comics and the Cultural Middlebrow
Belphégor, 2017 This chapter deliberates the merits of whether French-language comics may be construed as a salient example of a new cultural middlebrow. It argues that the comics artist introduces new ways of seeing shared worlds, stressing the referential aspects ...
David Platten
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Regions, Maps, Readers: Theorizing Middlebrow Geography [PDF]
Belphégor, 2017 This article argues that endpaper maps in children’s and adult’s fictions, read in terms of the material contexts of the novels they illustrate and their specific historical contexts, point to new ways of conceiving and organizing middlebrow studies in ...
Kristin Bluemel
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‘Dark, mysterious, and undocumented’: the middlebrow fantasy and the fantastic middlebrow
, 2013 The concept of ‘middlebrow’ literature in the twentieth century, which received minimal critical attention from the Leavises onwards, has recently become a site of literary and sociological interest, especially regarding the interwar period. This thesis considers the ways in which a corporate middlebrow identity, amongst an intangible community of like-
Thomas, Simon
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Middlebrow Modernism: Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide [PDF]
, 2018 Situated at the intersection between the history, historiography and aesthetics of twentieth-century music, this study uses Benjamin Britten’s operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics and audiences mediated the “great divide” between modernism and mass culture.
Chowrimootoo, Christopher
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, 2016 This chapter defines the middlebrow as occupying the middle ground between the highbrow, the arts that elicit intellectual responses as they may be challenging and uncomfortable, and the lowbrow, or cultural texts that elicit emotional, basic or bodily ...
Rachel Dwyer, Dwyer, Rachel
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Introduction: European Middlebrow [PDF]
Belphégor, 2017 The term ‘middlebrow’ has a strong negative charge. It suggests middle-of-the-road, compromise and insipidity, middle class in an aspirational and snobbish way.
Diana Holmes
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, 2017 Belphégor, 15, 2, 2017 Middlebrow sous la direction de Diana Holmes et Matthieu Letourneux http://journals.openedition.org/belphegor/ Sommaire Dossier Middlebrow Diana Holmes Introduction: European Middlebrow [Texte intégral] Paul Bleton Par tous ...
mariannebg
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Teachers’ gender bias in STEM: Results from a vignette study
British Educational Research Journal, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 833-851, August 2023., 2023 Abstract Gender stereotypes in the natural sciences may discourage girls from pursuing STEM fields, thus contributing to the differential STEM pathways of males and females. This paper exploits quasi‐experimental data from a vignette study to investigate teachers’ gender bias in STEM at the transition to upper secondary school in Denmark—a key stage in
Ida Gran Andersen
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Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms
The Geographical Journal, Volume 189, Issue 1, Page 143-160, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Part 2 of Encountering Berlant amplifies the promise of Lauren Berlant's influential concept of ‘cruel optimism’. Cruel optimism names a double‐bind in which attachment to an ‘object’ holds out the promise of sustaining/flourishing, whilst simultaneously harming.
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