From Lowbrow To Nobrow

Author : Peter Swirski
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773530195
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Lowbrow to Nobrow written by Peter Swirski and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'From Lowbrow to Nobrow' vindicates popular fiction as an art form that expresses and reflects the aesthetic and social values of its readers.

Author : Peter Swirski
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773573240
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Lowbrow to Nobrow written by Peter Swirski and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005-10-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swirski begins with a series of groundbreaking questions about the nature of popular fiction, vindicating it as an artform that expresses and reflects the aesthetic and social values of its readers. He follows his insightful introduction to the socio-aesthetics of genre literature with a synthesis of the century long debate on the merits of popular fiction and a study of genre informed by analytic aesthetics and game theory. Swirski then turns to three "nobrow" novels that have been largely ignored by critics. Examining the aesthetics of "artertainment" in Karel Capek's War with the Newts, Raymond Chandler's Playback, and Stanislaw Lem's Chain of Chance, crossover tours de force, From Lowbrow to Nobrow throws new light on the hazards and rewards of nobrow traffic between popular forms and highbrow aesthetics.

Author : Peter Swirski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349951684
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow written by Peter Swirski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Seabrook
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375704515
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobrow written by John Seabrook and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-02-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From John Seabrook, one of our most incisive and amusing cultural critics, comes Nobrow, a fascinatingly original look at the radical convergence of marketing and culture. In the old days, highbrow was elite and unique and lowbrow was commercial and mass-produced. Those distinctions have been eradicated by a new cultural landscape where “good” means popular, where artists show their work at K-Mart, Titantic becomes a bestselling classical album, and Roseanne Barr guest edits The New Yorker: in short, a culture of Nobrow. Combining social commentary, memoir, and profiles of the potentates and purveyors of pop culture–entertainment mogul David Geffen, MTV President Judy McGrath, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Nobrow high-priest George Lucas, and others–Seabrook offers an enthralling look at our breakneck society where culture is ruled by the unpredictable Buzz and where even aesthetic worth is measured by units shipped.

Author : Stanisław Lem
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 081011495X
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Stanislaw Lem Reader written by Stanisław Lem and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-12 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Lem Reader, Peter Swirski has assembled an in-depth and insightful collection of writings by and about, and interviews with, one of the most fascinating writers of the twentieth century.

Author : Dwight Macdonald
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 159017447X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masscult and Midcult written by Dwight Macdonald and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Review Books Original An uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of quick wit and wide learning, an anarchist, a pacifist, and a virtuoso of the slashing phrase, Dwight Macdonald was an indefatigable and indomitable critic of America’s susceptibility to well-meaning cultural fakery: all those estimable, eminent, prizewinning works of art that are said to be good and good for you and are not. He dubbed this phenomenon “Midcult” and he attacked it not only on aesthetic but on political grounds. Midcult rendered people complacent and compliant, secure in their common stupidity but neither happy nor free. This new selection of Macdonald’s finest essays, assembled by John Summers, the editor of The Baffler, reintroduces a remarkable American critic and writer. In the era of smart, sexy, and everything indie, Macdonald remains as pertinent and challenging as ever.

Author : Peter Swirski
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773589929
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Literature to Biterature written by Peter Swirski and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Literature to Biterature is based on the premise that in the foreseeable future computers will become capable of creating works of literature. Among hundreds of other questions, it considers: Under which conditions would machines become capable of creative writing? Given that computer evolution will exceed the pace of natural evolution a million-fold, what will such a state of affairs entail in terms of art, culture, social life, and even nonhuman rights? Drawing a map of impending literary, cultural, social, and technological revolutions, Peter Swirski boldly assumes that computers will leap from mere syntax-driven processing to semantically rich understanding. He argues that acknowledging biterature as a species of literature will involve adopting the same range of attitudes to computer authors (computhors) as to human ones and that it will be necessary to approach them as agents with internal states and creative intentions. Ranging from the metafiction of Stanislaw Lem to the "Turing test" (familiar to scientists working in Artificial Intelligence and the philosophers of mind) to the evolutionary trends of culture and machines, Swirski's scenarios lay the groundwork for a new area of study on the cusp of literary futurology, evolutionary cognition, and philosophy of the future.

Author : Harlan Levey
Publisher : Gingko Press Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781584234579
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Highbrow, Lowbrow, Nobrow written by Harlan Levey and published by Gingko Press Editions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their second volume, MODART coins a new term, 'Moussism' to describe a post-everything era in the arts. According to the editors, Moussism is a non-traditional community based movement, which is not limited to a period, place or classical notion of aesthetics, discipline, medium, ideology or style. Artists such as David Shrigley, Nomad, Will Barras, Jeroen Jongeleen (Influenza) and East Eric are selected within to illustrate the concept of Moussism for their emphasis on a gestural approach.

Author : Peter Swirski
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773537651
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ars Americana, Ars Politica written by Peter Swirski and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating look at modern American politics and the partisan culture that feeds off its turmoil.

Author : Peter Swirski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331930108X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Crime Fiction written by Peter Swirski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Swirski looks at American crime fiction as an artform that expresses and reflects the social and aesthetic values of its authors and readers. As such he documents the manifold ways in which such authorship and readership are a matter of informed literary choice and not of cultural brainwashing or declining literary standards. Asking, in effect, a series of questions about the nature of genre fiction as art, successive chapters look at American crime writers whose careers throw light on the hazards and rewards of nobrow traffic between popular forms and highbrow aesthetics: Dashiell Hammett, John Grisham, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, Ed McBain, Nelson DeMille, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.