interwar period with a particular focus on the middlebrow imagination. I argue that travel literature often appealed to the middlebrow in content and style, and the Pacific Islands were a middle-brow setting. In doing so, I explore Australian
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Ambivalent Mobilities in the Pacific
“Savagery” and “Civilization” in the Australian Interwar Imaginary
Nicholas Halter
Becoming “Pacific-Minded”
Australian Middlebrow Writers in the 1940s and the Mobility of Texts
Anna Johnston
which to raise serious questions about society, politics, and history in an accessible form, aimed at a general, educated reader. Travel writing is a quintessentially middlebrow form, as Steve Clark argues 18 —that is, it falls between high literature
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Print Culture, Mobility, and The Pacific, 1920–1950
Victoria Kuttainen and Susann Liebich
framework of the middlebrow is well suited for investigations of the confluence of travel, mobility, and print culture between 1920 and 1950. The middlebrow, a cultural category that signaled familiarity with high cultural forms for mass audiences and
Worldly Tastes
Mobility and the Geographical Imaginaries of Interwar Australian Magazines
Victoria Kuttainen and Susann Liebich
approach with the work of Canadianists Faye Hammill and Michelle Smith in Magazines, Travel, and Middle-brow Culture , but also a thematic interest in the linkage between magazines, mobility, and aspirational culture. 9 Rather than travel per se, however
Frances Steel
middlebrow, rendered a world of volitional mobility for the aspirational globe-trotter, tourist, or traveler. This had a particular gendered power. While recent collaborative scholarship has charted the appearance of the “modern girl” or “modern woman” across
The Spectacular Traveling Woman
Australian and Canadian Visions of Women, Modernity, and Mobility between the Wars
Sarah Galletly
, Modernity, and the Middle Ground of Canadian and Australian Middlebrow Print Cultures,” Victoria Kuttainen calls for increased critical attention to the “parallel developments in mid-range magazines and middlebrow print cultures in Canada and Australia in
Boundaries and Margins
The Making of the ‘Golden Cage’
Eirini Chrysocheri
. Bourdieu , P. ( 1984 ), Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press ). Bourdieu , P. ( 1990 ), Photography: A Middle-Brow Art ( Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press ). Casey , E
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Christopher Blake Evernden, Cynthia A. Freeland, Thomas Schatz, and Frank P. Tomasulo
elsewhere over the following decade—not to mention the auteurism of the Cahiers du cinéma critics (and eventual New Wave cineastes). Bordwell devotes one of his later interludes to “Remaking Middlebrow Modernism,” for instance, and the last substantive
The Richness of a Narrative Arrest
Performance and Scenic Composition in the Cinema of William Wyler
Johannes Riis
couple's conflict over money in Funny Girl , a focused arrest takes its place in the name of suspense. In a study of 1940s film culture, David Bordwell notes how Mrs. Miniver and The Best Years of Our Lives represented the period's middle-brow cinema