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- "Both high and low culture have produced masterpieces and works of mediocrity. It is our task to find beauty in unexpected places."
The term nobrow is a postmodern neologism derived from highbrow and lowbrow. The term denotes intellectual discourse, cultural history and historiography which takes into account both high culture and low culture. The practice was influenced by French Annales School and such publications as Histoire de la vie privée. A good understanding of nobrow requires an analysis of what exactly is high and low culture. For this purpose, this wiki uses the chart 'low, middle and high culture' by American sociologist Herbert J. Gans.
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Critical and commercial success
The term 'nobrow' can also be applied to cultural products which are both a critical and box office success
Where "body genres" intersect with "mind genres"
The term can also be applied to whenever "body genres" intersect with intellectual discourse.
Etymology
The term nobrow is derived from highbrow and lowbrow and first appeared in print in the late 1980s[1]. Highbrow denotes a "person of superior intellect and taste," first attested in 1902. Lowbrow is a "person who is not intellectual" is also first attested 1902, said to have been coined by humorist Will Irwin. (source: Etymology online).
Nobrow filmmakers and films
Directors
American director Roger Corman and French director Alain Robbe-Grillet include high and low art tropes in his work.
Jess Franco is an exploitation director who appropriates literary classics.
Ingmar Bergman's film Hour of the Wolf is a nobrow film because it deals with the body genre horror but is filmed by the intellectual filmmaker par excellence, Ingmar Bergman.
Events
Exploitation film presenter Kroger Babb purchased the American rights to Summer with Monika in 1956. To increase excitement for the film, he edited it down to sixty-two minutes and emphasized the film's nudity. Renaming the film Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl and connoting it to the bad girl movies tradition, he provided a good deal of suggestive promotional material, including postcards featuring the nude Andersson.
Film journals
Nobrow television
"Low culture" product The Simpsons' references highbrow culture.
Nobrow actors
Klaus Kinski working both with Jess Franco in the exploitation realm and with Werner Herzog in the high art realm.
Nobrow theory
- Postmodernism
- "Pop in the broadest sense was the context in which a notion of the postmodern first took shape, and from the beginning until today, the most significant trends within postmodernism have challenged modernism's relentless hostility to mass culture." -- After the Great Divide (1986) - Andreas Huyssen
- Camille Paglia: is firmly rooted in popular culture and links with literary theory
- Slavoj Žižek: uses popular culture to explain Lacan
- Peter Sloterdijk: uses the arse to explain an embodied philosophyin Critique of Cynical Reason
- Cross the Border — Close the Gap by Leslie Fiedler
- The Pornographic Imagination by Susan Sontag
Nobrow publishers
French publisher Eric Losfeld published both high art (mainly surrealism) and low art books such as comic books, erotic books, etcetera.
Nobrow theatre
Royal de luxe, a French theatre compay, takes its theatre to the street.
Related terms
culture war - cultural pessimism - eclecticism - elite - hierarchy - high culture - low culture - mass - paracinema - paraliterature - postmodernism - good taste and bad taste
See also
