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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A form of intellectual and artistic culture that has qualities of high culture and mass culture without being either.
Wiktionary
- n. A form of middlebrow culture that copies and adulterates high culture.
Etymologies
- mid- + cult, coined by Dwight MacDonald in the essay Masscult and Midcult (1960). (Wiktionary)
- mid(dlebrow) + cult(ure). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Barrack Room Ballads and The Caine Mutiny are specimens of midcult, however.”
“Perhaps the Revised Standard Version, which Dwight Macdonald singled out as a representative example of midcult?”
“But what it calls to mind most clearly is Classics Illustrated, the midcult publishing staple from the '50s and' 60s that offered up everything from "Moby-Dick" to "The Iliad" in comic-book form.”
“Where response to Angelou's poem was constrained by access to existing media - I'm unaware of any "the empress has no clothes" reviews in such midcult venues as the”
“[W] hat this picture is, if you'll pardon the phrase, a straight-across-the-plate pitch to midcult audiences fond of event films and potential Oscar contenders.”
“He is sinking fast but in defiance of midcult verities is still loved, so they say, by the misbegotten, 13,000 lobbyists, the Kansas suburbs, 90,000 filling station attendants, Tucker Carlson’s barber and Lou (’Of course I’m too fat but I can’t get enough of Mexica food’) Dobbs. —”
The Times and the McCain Op-Ed - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“And the country’s midcult I. Q.’s and John (” I read the ‘Naked and the Dead’ but couldn’t understand it”) McCain can do nothing to stop it. —”
Obama at Convention for Journalists - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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