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- noun The modern
industrial equivalent ofculture , mass-produced andanonymously consumed , withoutspecialization orconnoisseurship .
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Examples
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His concern is "not so much with the dead sea of masscult as with the life of the tide line where the decisive struggles for survival take place between higher and lower organisms."
Fragment from an Untelevised Revolution Rick Moody 2009
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Compare Smith's reliance on masscult totems like the Star Wars movies to the catholic tastes of his fellow Sundance alum Quentin Tarantino, who teases fans with references to obscure spaghetti Westerns and borrows formal strategies from Jean-Luc Godard.
Slate Articles Sam Adams 2011
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Guy Debord throws down this critique near the end of his last film, détourned into illustrative counterpoint for an anti-masscult philippic interwoven with autobiographical self-reflection ....
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Guy Debord throws down this critique near the end of his last film, détourned into illustrative counterpoint for an anti-masscult philippic interwoven with autobiographical self-reflection ....
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Guy Debord throws down this critique near the end of his last film, détourned into illustrative counterpoint for an anti-masscult philippic interwoven with autobiographical self-reflection ....
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Guy Debord throws down this critique near the end of his last film, détourned into illustrative counterpoint for an anti-masscult philippic interwoven with autobiographical self-reflection ....
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Guy Debord throws down this critique near the end of his last film, détourned into illustrative counterpoint for an anti-masscult philippic interwoven with autobiographical self-reflection ....
GreenCine Daily 2009
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