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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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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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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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, 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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"Written with a Hard and Ruthless Purpose": Rose Wilder Lane, Edna Ferber, and Middlebrow Regional Fiction [PDF]
, 2015 When Walter Benn Michaels proposed in Our America that "the great American modernist texts of the '20s must be understood as deeply committed to the nativist project of racializing the American" (13), his examination left out popular middlebrow novels ...
Campbell, Donna
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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.
Ben Anderson +12 more
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 102-123, February 2023., 2023 Histories of settler colonial art galleries have tended to present these institutions as distant attempts to replicate British models. This essay argues that settler/Indigenous interactions, and the violent dispossession of Indigenous peoples, were fundamental to the formation of settler colonial art galleries, through a case study of the 1880s ...
Kate Nichols
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History and Theory, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 371-390, September 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT Modernity held sacred the aspirational formula of the open future: a promise of human determination that doubles as an injunction to control. Today, the banner of this plannable future is borne by technology. Allegedly impersonal, neutral, and exempt from disillusionment with ideology, belief in technological change saturates the present ...
Sun‐ha Hong
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