kitsch
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I suspect Schoenbrun could deliver a five-hour TED Talk on the pop cultural kitsch of “Friday the 13th’s” Jason Voorhees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Call it kitsch or outright ghastliness, but it’s all in defiance of a simple, stubborn truth: Death cannot be overcome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The show was "not cool" in the 1980s and 1990s and was dismissed as unappreciated kitsch in the West when eastern European countries joined, Jordan said.
From Barron's ● May 16, 2026
Not everything needs to be kitsch, dumbed down, or turned into a competitive status symbol, lest anyone take that as another excuse to care even less about the wrong things.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026
But here she was now, disliking it with the haughty confidence of a person who recognized kitsch.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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