High and mass culture interpenetration predates postmodernism by decades

Evidence

Crucial here is not so much the interpenetration of ‘high’ and mass culture - say, the regular use of Brechtian alienation devices by the television series Moonlighting — since there is nothing particularly new about such spillovers — film noir would be unrecognizable without the use of techniques culled from German Expressionist cinema, as the permeation of everyday life by images and sounds. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 570

Categorization

• XREF: Directly undercuts Jameson’s claim that the erasure of high/low culture boundaries marks a distinctly postmodern condition — gives concrete pre-postmodern examples. — connects to: Postmodernity’s signature multiplicity was already common among 1900s Modernist thinkers; Postmodernism erases the high culture versus mass culture boundary. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 38; Everyday metropolitan culture anticipated postmodernism before its intellectual articulation — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 407 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodernism erases the high culture versus mass culture boundary. #qualifies (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 38
• Everyday metropolitan culture anticipated postmodernism before its intellectual articulation #expands (0.80) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 407