Bear with me here
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Before the late 60s, "serious" critics wouldn't even bother, for the most part, with "low" or "popular" or working class culture.
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By the early 80s, they were already falling all over each other to prove how much they appreciated and understood it.
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So you really only get a good 5-10 year window of full-bore intellectual condescension, where pop culture was considered a worthy target.
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The grand masters of this era/style are probably Joan Didion and Pauline Kael. But a lot of other people participated.
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NYRB is probably the only publication still keeping the flame of condescension alive. The New Republic a little bit, maybe.
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(If it isn't clear from the foregoing, I'm not using "condescension" as an insult or dig here — I think it's a worthwhile rhetorical mode.)
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(Also not saying Huey Newton is pop culture, that's just what got me started thinking about this)
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@evankindley Makes sense to me!
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