Testing the Limits of the Middlebrow
The Holocaust for the Masses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12917384 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Phyllis Lassner (0000-0001-6390-8313, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 178-195 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modernist Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-8629 • E-ISSN: 2041-1022 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/mod.2011.0009 |
| OpenAlex | W2083091321 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
This essay explores how analyzing popular Holocaust films as a representation of Middlebrow cultural production changes conventional assessments of each. Unlike those writers who have suffered the opprobrium of too much accessibility, of being relegated to Middlebrow marginalization from canonical cultural status, Holocaust writers struggle to find the language and forms through which to bear witness to their experiences, in short, to achieve accessibility. In turn, just as popular Holocaust films defy the promises of escapist fantasy, so they demonstrate how Middlebrow culture can be seen as questioning and revising traditional forms of realism and modernist experiment
Aesthetics · Art · Fantasy · Linguistics · Literature · Middlebrow · Political science · Realism · Representation (politics · Sociology · The Holocaust · Witness · Cinema and Media Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |