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