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Masscult And Midcult

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Author by : Dwight Macdonald
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2011-10-11
Publisher by : New York Review of Books

ISBN : 9781590174685

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 indomitable critic of America’s susceptibility to well-meaning cultural fakery: all those estimable, eminent, prizewinning works of art that are said to be good and good for you and are not. He dubbed this phenomenon “Midcult” and he attacked it not only on aesthetic but on political grounds. Midcult rendered people complacent and compliant, secure in their common stupidity but neither happy nor free. This new selection of Macdonald’s finest essays, assembled by John Summers, the editor of The Baffler, reintroduces a remarkable American critic and writer. In the era of smart, sexy, and everything indie, Macdonald remains as pertinent and challenging as ever....

Masscult And Midcult

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Author by : Dwight MacDonald
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2011-10-01
Publisher by :

ISBN : 1258106132

An Inquiry Into American Popular Culture And The Role Of The Middlebrows In The Distortion Of Cultural Values....

Masscult Midcult

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Author by : Dwight Macdonald
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1961
Publisher by :

ISBN : OCLC:1824636

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Masscult E Midcult

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Author by : Dwight McDonald
Languange Used : it
Release Date : 2018
Publisher by :

ISBN : 8893710331

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Against The American Grain

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Author by : Dwight Macdonald
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1983
Publisher by : Da Capo Press, Incorporated

ISBN : IND:30000048966042

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The End Of The Soul

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Author by : Jennifer Hecht
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2005-12-20
Publisher by : Columbia University Press

ISBN : 9780231502382

On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, both men and women included, joined together to form an unusual group, The Society of Mutual Autopsy, with the aim of proving that souls do not exist. The idea was that, after death, they would dissect one another and (hopefully) show a direct relationship between brain shapes and sizes and the character, abilities and intelligence of individuals. This strange scientific pact, and indeed what we have come to think of as anthropology, which the group's members helped to develop, had its genesis in aggressive, evangelical atheism. With this group as its focus, The End of the Soul is a study of science and atheism in France in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It shows that anthropology grew in the context of an impassioned struggle between the forces of tradition, especially the Catholic faith, and those of a more freethinking modernism, and moreover that it became for many a secular religion. Among the adherents of this new faith discussed here are the novelist Emile Zola, the great statesman Leon Gambetta, the American birth control advocate Margaret Sanger, and Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Sherlock Holmes embodied the triumph of ratiocination over credulity. Boldly argued, full of colorful characters and often bizarre battles over science and faith, this book represents a major contribution to the history of science and European intellectual history....

Masscult And Midcult

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Author by : Dwight Macdonald
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2011-10-11
Publisher by : New York Review of Books

ISBN : 9781590174470

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 indomitable critic of America’s susceptibility to well-meaning cultural fakery: all those estimable, eminent, prizewinning works of art that are said to be good and good for you and are not. He dubbed this phenomenon “Midcult” and he attacked it not only on aesthetic but on political grounds. Midcult rendered people complacent and compliant, secure in their common stupidity but neither happy nor free. This new selection of Macdonald’s finest essays, assembled by John Summers, the editor of The Baffler, reintroduces a remarkable American critic and writer. In the era of smart, sexy, and everything indie, Macdonald remains as pertinent and challenging as ever....

Discriminations

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Author by : Dwight Macdonald
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1985-08-21
Publisher by : Da Capo Press, Incorporated

ISBN : IND:39000007392967

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Culture Crash

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Author by : Scott Timberg
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2015-01-01
Publisher by : Yale University Press

ISBN : 9780300195880

Argues that United States' creative class is fighting for survival and explains why this should matter to all Americans....

Revolt Of The Masscult

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Author by : Chris Lehmann
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2003
Publisher by : Prickly Paradigm

ISBN : 0971757577

We live in an age of "popular culture"—another term, to some, for an organic mess of marketing strategies aimed at giving us the illusion of choice. From Oprah Winfrey's Book Club to presidential politics, however, distinctions of taste are more accurately understood to be "blunt instruments of antidemocratic elitism." So argues Chris Lehmann, in a discussion that ranges over the work of Edward Shils, Clement Greenberg, and Jonathan Franzen with equal ease. The resulting pamphlet is an impassioned plea for the rebirth of culture with content. "Think that the age of the pamphlet ended with Thomas Paine? Think again. Chicago-based Prickly Paradigm Press has launched a series of broadsides aimed at knocking holes in conventional thinking wherever it's found. . . . In Revolt of the Masscult, Chris Lehmann—deputy editor of Book World—assails the blurring of 'mass' into 'popular' culture and the 'comforting impression that all mass entertainments are as freely chosen as, say, our political leaders or our forms of worship.' . . . Lehmann enlists everything from Dwight Macdonald's Masscult, Midcult, and High Culture to the Jonathan Franzen Oprah's Book Club dustup of 2001 to plead for a return to culture that means something—that, in other words, has actual rather than market value."—Jennifer Howard, Washington Post...

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