When highbrow meets lowbrow : popular culture and the rise of nobrow 1 Introduction: browbeaten into pulp Peter Swirski and Tero Eljas Vanhanen : No brow no problem What cultural critics are for Notes. 2 Pop culture and nobrow culture Arthur Asa Berger : Lil Abner as a dissertation topic Pop culture and other related concerns Highbrows lowbrows and nobrows Notes. 3 Nobrow American style Peter Swirski : Two rail engine Just right! Crowd mentality Notes. 4 Middlebrow and nobrow Beth Driscoll : What happens when popular fiction wins a literary prize How we fell about romance The limits of middlebrow and nobrow Notes. 5 Prequels to nobrow Kenneth Krabbenhoft : Verbal correctness from Socrates to the Renaissance From unibrow to unbrow in the sixteenth century From unibrow to unbrow in Lope de Vega and Cervantes Notes. 6 Gothic literature in America Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet : Puzzling Poe Mysterious Melville Going Gothic Notes. 7 Neither Indian reservation nor baboon patriarchy Nicholas Ruddick : The talking squid of Saturn Outer stupidity inner logic Everyone welcome (except hippos) Notes. 8 Mambo clothing and Australian nobrow Chris McAuliffe : Building a nobrow brand: antithesis take the piss synthesis Mambo and the new nobrow economy High culture comes to the beach party Notes. 9 Guilty pleasures or nobrow treasures David McAvoy : Pathologizing guilt Guilty pleasure aka acceptable buyers remorse Nobrow treasures and the glitch in the matrix Notes. 10 The good the bad and the nobrow Tero Eljas Vanhanen : Blood and guts Dont believe the reaper Of the standard of distaste Notes. Bibliography Index 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