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. A. counterproductive B. penchant for C. aversion to D. underappreciated E. distaste for F. investment in G. overstated H. indifference to I. misunderstanding of