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When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow

Popular Culture and the Rise of Nobrow

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  • 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

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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Sun Yat-Sen University , HONG KONG, Hong Kong

    Peter Swirski

  • University of Helsinki , Helsinki, Finland

    Tero Eljas Vanhanen

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow

  • Book Subtitle: Popular Culture and the Rise of Nobrow

  • Editors: Peter Swirski, Tero Eljas Vanhanen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95168-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • License: CC BY

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59772-4Published: 29 June 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95878-8Published: 11 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95168-0Published: 27 June 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 271

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Literary History, Media Studies, Cultural History, Cultural Studies

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