When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow: Popular Culture and the Rise of Nobrow

1. Introduction - Browbeaten into Pulp: Nobrow Positions and Oppositions; Peter Swirski and Tero Eljas Vanhanen.- 2. Pop Culture and Nobrow Culture - From Li'l Abner to Discourse Theory and Back: A Culture Critic's Odyssey; Arthur Berger.- 3. Nobrow, American Style: From Goldilocks to the Golden Mean; Peter Swirski.- 4. Middlebrow and Nobrow: Tracing Patterns Across Culture; Beth Driscoll.- 5. Prequels to Nobrow: Battles of the Brows from Socrates to Cervantes; Kenneth Krabbenhoft.- 6. Gothic Literature in America: The Nobrow Aesthetics of Murder and Madness.- Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet.- 7. Neither Indian Reservation Nor Baboon Patriarchy: Science Fiction as Nobrow Phenomenon; Nicholas Ruddick.- 8. Mambo Clothing and Australian Nobrow: Wearable Art for a Global Audience; Christopher McAuliffe.- 9. Guilty Pleasures, or Nobrow Treasures? Popular Judgment and the Affective Economy of Taste; David McAvoy.- 10. The Good, the Bad, and the Nobrow: Structures of Taste and Distaste in the Nobrow Age; Tero Eljas Vanhanen.- Bibliography.- Index.-