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midcult en · NOUN

Etymology

From mid- + cult, coined by Dwight Macdonald in the essay Masscult and Midcult (1960).

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A form of middlebrow culture that copies and adulterates high culture.
    • Only thing Fitzgerald wrote that will last is The Great Gatsby—the rest (Tender Is The Night, The Last Tycoon) is midcult junk. 2012, Susan Sontag, “11/5/76”, in David Rieff, editor, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

Coordinates

masscult