Middlebrow Cinema.

• Superior document: Remapping World Cinema Series
• Author: Faulkner, Sally.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2016.; Ã2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Remapping World Cinema Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (239 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Textual note -- List of contributors -- Introduction. Approaching the middlebrow: audience -- text -- institution -- Part I Mapping middlebrow -- 1 Hollywood middlebrow: a dialectical approach to 1940s cinema -- 2 Middlebrow taste: towards a new middle class - a certain tendency of 1950s French cinema -- 3 Mumbai middlebrow: ways of thinking about the middle ground in Hindi cinema -- Part II Case studies -- 4 Time and the middlebrow in 1940s British cinema -- 5 Rehearsing for democracy in dictatorship Spain: middlebrow period drama 1970-77 -- 6 The Mexican romantic sex comedy: the emergence of Mexican middlebrow filmmaking in the 1990s -- 7 Wealth and justice: contemporary Chinese middlebrow cinema -- 8 Counter-heritage, middlebrow and the fiction patrimoniale: reframing 'middleness' in the contemporary French historical film -- 9 Radical politics, middlebrow cinema: Salvador (Puig Antich) and the search for a new consensus -- Part III Middlebrow across borders -- 10 'Kings of the Middle Way': continental cinema on British screens -- 11 Hypotheses on the queer middlebrow -- Index.