Sinossi
Oggi la Cultura Alta non è più minacciata dal Masscult, quanto da quell'ibrido nato dai rapporti contro natura che la Cultura Alta ha intrattenuto con esso. Si tratta di una variegata cultura intermedia che minaccia di assorbire entrambi i genitori. Questa forma - che chiameremo Midcult - ha le stesse caratteristiche fondamentali del Masscult (la formula, le Reazioni Controllate, il rifiuto di qualsiasi standard qualitativo a favore della popolarità) ma le nasconde per pudore sotto una foglia di fico qualitativa. Nel Masscult il trucco è scoperto: piacere al pubblico con ogni mezzo. Il Midcult, invece, attira il pubblico in due modi diversi: da un lato finge di rispettare i canoni della Cultura Alta, dall'altro, a conti fatti, li annacqua e li volgarizza. Con un testo di Umberto Eco.
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- Pagine: 141
- Data di uscita: 22-03-2018
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Where have all the curmudgeons gone? Why are modern critics so afraid of telling it as they see it? Maybe because criticism has been bought by midcult postmodernism, just like everything else for sale today (and it's all for sale). In fifty years Macdonald won't even be readable; a few of his essays Leggi tutto
I loved this book. Despite having an admittedly anti-democratic view of culture, I couldn't help but agree with Macdonald in pretty much all of his opinions (except of course, his very negative views on Rock'n'Roll). I know his work may be a bit out of date--and Louis Menand points out this in his i Leggi tutto
This older collection of Macdonald's essays (originally published in 1962) shares half its title with a recent NYRB edition of his work, though they are not exactly the same--NYRB includes eight of the fifteen essays from this title, but adds only two others (and an introduction by Louis Menand.) Th Leggi tutto
" Life is a typical homogenized magazine, appearing on the mahogany library tables of the rich, the glass cocktail tables of the middle class, and the oilcloth kitchen tables of the poor. Its contents are as thoroughly homogenized as its circulation. The same issue will present a serious exposition o Leggi tutto
Too cantankerous for the highbrows, too smart for the middlebrows, too blasphemous for the orthodox, too faithful for the relativists, too left for the bougies, not left enough for the communard-poseurs; Dwight Macdonald had that rare critical nose that can search nominally opposed party platforms a Leggi tutto
For those who like their politics radical, sort of, and their culture securely highbrow, these essays should make you feel right at home. Whether it's popularizing fun and condescending terms like masscult or middlebrow, or just annoying Trotsky in general, Dwight MacDonald is an urbane, perceptive
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