midcult
English edit
Etymology edit
mid- + cult, coined by Dwight Macdonald in the essay Masscult and Midcult (1960).
Noun edit
midcult (uncountable)
- A form of middlebrow culture that copies and adulterates high culture.
- Coordinate term: masscult
- 2012, Susan Sontag, “11/5/76”, in David Rieff, editor, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
- Only thing Fitzgerald wrote that will last is The Great Gatsby—the rest (Tender Is The Night, The Last Tycoon) is midcult junk.