Beschreibung:
Sally Faulkner is Professor of Hispanic Studies and Film Studies at the University of Exeter, and author of Literary Adaptations in Spanish Cinema (2004), A Cinema of Contradiction: Spanish Film in the 1960s (2006) and A History of Spanish Film: Cinema and Society 1910-2010 (2013).
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'.
Introduction Approaching the Middlebrow: Audience; Text; Institution