10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIDCULT»
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midcult in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
midcult and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Masscult and
Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain
A New York Review Books Original An uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of quick wit and wide learning, an anarchist, a pacifist, and a virtuoso of the slashing phrase, Dwight Macdonald was an indefatigable and ...
Dwight Macdonald, John Summers, 2011
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Popular Culture Theory and Methodology: A Basic Introduction
MASSCULT & MIDCULT Dwight Macdonald Dwight Macdonald, an early student
of popular culture, views culture as divided into folk culture, mass culture (popular
culture), midcult, and high culture. His essay, "Masscult & Midcult," is a ...
Harold E. Hinds, Marilyn Ferris Motz, Angela M. S. Nelson, 2006
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Left Intellectuals & Popular Culture in Twentieth-century ...
citizens. Macdonald described such "Midcult" as having the same features as "
Masscult" — "the formula, the built-in reaction, the lack of any standard except
popularity" — but said that Midcult "decently covers them with a cultural figleaf.
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Cultural Conservatism, Political Liberalism: From Criticism ...
Beyond. "Masscult". and. "Midcult": The. Achievernent. of. Dwight. Macdonald. In
the essays that make up Against the American Grain (i96z) Dwight Macdonald
formulated the positions on mass culture, or "masscult" (his own preferred term, ...
5
The New York Intellectuals Reader
Here, with helpful head notes and a comprehensive introduction by Neil Jumonville, The New York Intellectuals Reader brings the work of these thinkers back into conversation.
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The Naked Communist:Cold War Modernism and the Politics of ...
This intermediate form—let us call it Midcult—has the essential qualities of
Masscult—the formula, the built-in reaction, the lack of any standard except
popularity—but it decently covers them with a cultural figleaf. In Masscult the trick
is ...
7
The Age of American Unreason
Examples of Midcult passing itself off as the real thing included Thornton Wilder's
The Shin of Our Teeth (indebted to Joyce's Finnegans Wake but nevertheless "
pretentious and embarrassing"); the Museum of Modern Art; Vance Packard's ...
But among these examples of Midcult, MacDonald also includes certain products
that have reduced old Bauhaus designs into objects of daily use (point 2) — a
fact that really shouldn't irritate the critic since, after all, the designers of Bauhaus
...
9
Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture
33 For all his disdain for the leveling effects of popular culture, Macdonald saw "
Midcult" — the offspring of the marriage of high and popular cultures — as the
greatest threat to culture: "This intermediate form — let us call it Midcult — has the
...
Henry Jenkins III, Tara McPherson, Jane Shattuc, 2002
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Roll Over Adorno: Critical Theory, Popular Culture, ...
—Clement Greenberg, “Avant-Garde and Kitsch” In Masscult (and in its bastard,
Midcult), everything becomes a commodity, to be mined for $$$$. —Dwight
Macdonald, “Masscult and Midcult” donald commences his famous salvo against
what ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MIDCULT»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
midcult is used in the context of the following news items.
Middlebrow Tantrum in “Culture Crash” Misses the Mark
Thinly rejecting Dwight MacDonald's evisceration of the middlebrow in 1960's “Masscult and Midcult,” Timberg celebrates the democratic ... «BLOUIN ARTINFO, Feb 15»
February 17, 1913: The Armory Show Opens in New York
The Armory Show of 1913 is famous among midcult sophisticates as the introduction of modernist art to the United States. Actually, as early as ... «The Nation., Feb 15»
Finding the J-spot
Apart from one or two serious festivals, he suggests, most of them feature the same midcult Indian writers, who trot from one to the other for ... «India Today, Jan 15»
An Irish crime drama, a good book, and unlimited movies
One of them—I can't remember who, but I'm eternally grateful—handed me a copy of Dwight MacDonald's collection, Masscult And Midcult: ... «A.V. Club, Jan 15»
Beautiful Tylenol Ad Puts a Lesbian Family in a Norman Rockwell …
To my mind, Normal Rockwell was an insufferably sentimental, relentlessly midcult, outrageously overrated hack—a minimally talented painter ... «Slate Magazine, Dec 14»
A.O. Scott's "The Squeeze on the Middlebrow"
Macdonald's Partisan Review essay "Mass Cult and Midcult," in particular, is a classic primer on the vagaries of a watered down culture. Ortega ... «Huffington Post, Aug 14»
A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture
Among the most famous of these came from Dwight Macdonald in a long Partisan Review essay from 1960 called “Masscult and Midcult. «New York Times, Aug 14»
Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow — Do These Kinds of Cultural …
Dwight Macdonald, giving the terms a postwar freshening and some sociological heft, defined the massive terrain of “Midcult” in 1960 as a ... «New York Times, Jul 14»
Illiberal 'Liberalism'
... and knowledge” that had merely given the average American “masscult” and “midcult,” the vulgar “American culture of the cheap newspaper, ... «FrontPage Magazine, May 14»
Matthew Weiner Is Overrated
No better contemporary example than “Mad Men” exists of what Dwight MacDonald called “midcult”—unexceptional art whose highbrow ... «The New Republic, Apr 14»
