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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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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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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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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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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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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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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impressionable boys". Pauline Kael was unconvinced about the film and its "middlebrow highmindedness", but praised Williams. "Robin Williams' performance is...
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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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first. Robert Pardi of TV Guide said of the series; "Engrossing in a middlebrow sort of way, this straightforward thriller, originally broadcast on British...
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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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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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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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unsophisticated entertainment Highbrow, synonymous with intellectual Middlebrow, describes both a certain type of easily accessible art, often literature...
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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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"Donald Trump, Saturday Night Live, and the sad political theater of middlebrow comedy". Vox. Retrieved August 27, 2024. Weindling, Jacob (April 1, 2019)...
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ISBN 1-899890-10-6. Mary Grover (2009). The Ordeal of Warwick Deeping. Middlebrow Authorship and Cultural Embarrassment. Associated University Presse. pp...
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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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Michael. "Review | Liam Neeson shoots bad guys, charms audience in the middlebrow 'The Marksman'". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved March...
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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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Imagists Decadent movement Dieselpunk Kitsch Kustom Kulture Massurrealism Middlebrow Naive art Outsider art Stuckism Superflat Tiki culture Underground art...
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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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(for example, works by Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, Iris Murdoch) and Middlebrow material (for example, works by William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens,...
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fields of tonal harmony. That style has taken permanent root in our pop-middlebrow sensibility. Glass' music is now indelibly a part of our cultural lingua...
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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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September 11, 2014. Dickerman, Sara (September 6, 2002). "Battle of the Middlebrow Chains". Slate. Retrieved March 4, 2011. "International". Olive Garden...
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