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| == Nobrow filmmakers and films == | == Nobrow filmmakers and films == | ||
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Definition
The term nobrow is a postmodern neologism derived from highbrow and lowbrow coined by John Seabrook in Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture (2000). 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). The term nobrow denotes intellectual discourse which is influenced both by high culture and low culture as initiated by Critical Theory in the United States and Cultural Studies in the United Kingdom.
The term can also be applied to cultural products which are both a critical and box office success.
The term can also be applied where "body genres" intersect with intellectual discourse.
Nobrow filmmakers and films
Roger Corman and Alain Robbe-Grillet includes high and low art tropes in his work.
Jess Franco is an exploitation director who appropriates literary classics.
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.
Nobrow television
The Simpsons' referential smorgasbord.
Nobrow actors
Klaus Kinski working both with Jess Franco in the exploitation realm and with Werner Herzog in the high art realm.
Nobrow theory
Nobrow publishers
Eric Losfeld published high art (mainly surrealism) and low art cultural artifacts such as comic books, erotic books, etcetera.
Nobrow theatre
Royal de luxe, European street theatre company
Related terms
culture war - cultural pessimism - eclecticism - elite - hierarchy - high culture - low culture - mass - paracinema - paraliterature - postmodernism - good taste and bad taste
Academic theory on mass vs elite
Walter Benjamin - Stephen Bayley - Patrick Brantlinger - John Carey - Tyler Cowen - Robert Darnton - Leslie Fiedler - Herbert Gans - Bernard Gendron - Joan Hawkins - Andreas Huyssen - Lawrence Levine - John Mullan - Camille Paglia - Andrew Ross - John Seabrook - Alan Swingewood - Susan Sontag - Raymond Williams
