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High culture in literary or cinematic terms
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High culture in literary or cinematic terms is a discourse appropriated the title by academics or critics. This term is being questioned more and more frequently. Two hundred years ago the few who could read amongst the working classes, did not have access to a wide range of literary sources, thus it was up to the academics and critics to decide what constituted high culture. Today the critics and adademics still make these decisions, but the majority of the population of the western world can read, and have some form of education. They are underestimated in their ability to decide what qualifes as high culture. It is not the books that have been granted this title that are usually in question it is those which have not. Low or popular culture was first associated with the uneducated working classes. The ruling classes tried hard to control it during the first half...
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