
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...

Middlebrow Cinema argues that the centre has been too long overlooked. Reaching beyond popular and art alternatives, the volume explores films that may be middling - even mediocre - by reassessing and reinvigorating the term 'middlebrow'. This ambitious and wide-ranging...