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Masscult and Midcult
Dwight Macdonald
其他書名
Essays Against the American Grain
出版New York Review of Books, 2011-10-11
主題Social Science / EssaysLiterary Collections / EssaysSocial Science / Popular Culture
ISBN15901746829781590174685
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TsE_KQLuThkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.