Remapping World Cinema

B-Film is delighted to announce the publication of the first volume in the new Remapping World Cinema series with Routledge: Sally Faulkner’s superb Middlebrow Cinema.

The series is jointly coordinated by B-Film with the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at Leeds and the Centrefor Film and Media Research at Kent and an advisory board of over 50 internationally renowned scholars.

Middlebrow Cinema challenges an often uninterrogated hostility to middlebrow culture that frequently dismisses it as conservative, which it often is not, and feminized or middle-class, which it often is. The volume defines the term relationally against shifting concepts of ‘high’ and ‘low’, and considers its deployment in connection with text, audience and institution... More from Routledge Publishing

Link to publisher’s series page: https://www.routledge.com/series/RWC