This is perhaps the most distressing development of all from an academic standpoint, which has traditionally had a vested interest in preserving a realm of high or elite culture against the surrounding environment of philistinism, of schlock and kitsch,... Consumer Culture and Postmodernism - Page 54by Mike Featherstone - 2007 - 232 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Hal Foster - Philosophy - 1985 - 178 pages
...notably the erosion of the older distinction between high culture and so-called mass or popular culture. This is perhaps the most distressing development of...elite culture against the surrounding environment of philist inism , of schlock and kitsch, of TV series and Reader's Digest culture, and in transmitting... | |
| Arthur Asa Berger - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 226 pages
...the boundary that some intellectuals put between elite culture and mass culture. In this respect, he writes: This is perhaps the most distressing development...had a vested interest in preserving a realm of high art or elite culture against the surrounding environment of philistinism, of schlock and kitsch, of... | |
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