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Source: 2014

The serious study of popular culture by intellectuals is regularly credited with having rendered obsolete a once-dominant view that popular culture is inherently inferior to high art. Yet this alteration of attitudes may be somewhat (i) _____ . Although it is now academically respectable to analyze popular culture, the fact that many intellectuals feel compelled to rationalize their own (ii) _____ action movies or mass-market fiction reveals, perhaps unwittingly, their continued (iii) _____ the old hierarchy of high and low culture.

Blank(i)Blank(ii)Blank(iii)
A counterproductive D penchant for G aversion to
B underappreciated E distaste for H investment in
C overstated F indifference to I misunderstanding of

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