Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values
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Why does our popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values that most Americans hold dear? Why does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride patriotism? In this explosive book, one of the nation's best known film critics examines how Hollywood has broken faith with its public, creating movies, television, and popular music that exacerbate every serious social problem we face, from teenage pregnancies to violence in the streets. Michael Medved powerfully argues that the entertainment business follows its own dark obsessions, rather than giving the public what it wants: In fact, the audience for feature films and network television has demonstrated its profound disillusionment in recent years, with disastrous consequences for many entertainment companies. Meanwhile, overwhelming numbers of our fellow citizens complain about the wretched quality of our popular culture - describing the offerings of the mass media as the worst ever. Medved asserts that Hollywood ignores - and assaults - the values of ordinary American families, pursuing a self-destructive and alienated ideological agenda that is harmful to the nation at large and to the industry's own interests. In hard-hitting chapters on "The Attack on Religion," "The Addiction to Violence," "Promoting Promiscuity," "The Infatuation with Foul Language," "Kids Know Best," "Motivations for Madness," and other subjects, Medved outlines the underlying themes that turn up again and again in our popular culture. He also offers conclusive evidence of the frightening real-world impact of these messages on our society and our children. Finally, Medved shows where and how Hollywood took a disastrous wrong turn toward its current crisis, and he outlines promising efforts both in and outside the industry to restore a measure of sanity and restraint to our media of mass entertainment. Sure to elicit strong response, whether it takes the form of cheers of support or howls of enraged dissent, Hollywood vs. America confronts head-on one of the most significant issues of our times.
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Subjects
Aspect moral
Cin�ema
Cin�ema -- Aspect moral
Collection "Culture populaire" -- United States -- Aspect moral
Culture conflict
Culture conflict -- United States
Culture in motion pictures
Culture populaire
Culture populaire -- �Etats-Unis -- Aspect moral
Electronic books
Ethik
Fernsehen
Moral and ethical aspects
Motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Aspect moral
Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects
Nonfiction
Popular culture
Popular culture -- Moral and ethical aspects
Popular culture -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
Sociology
Television
Television -- Aspect moral
Television broadcasting
Television broadcasting -- Moral and ethical aspects
T�el�evision
T�el�evision -- Aspect moral
United States
USA
Cin�ema
Cin�ema -- Aspect moral
Collection "Culture populaire" -- United States -- Aspect moral
Culture conflict
Culture conflict -- United States
Culture in motion pictures
Culture populaire
Culture populaire -- �Etats-Unis -- Aspect moral
Electronic books
Ethik
Fernsehen
Moral and ethical aspects
Motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Aspect moral
Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects
Nonfiction
Popular culture
Popular culture -- Moral and ethical aspects
Popular culture -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
Sociology
Television
Television -- Aspect moral
Television broadcasting
Television broadcasting -- Moral and ethical aspects
T�el�evision
T�el�evision -- Aspect moral
United States
USA
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Why does our popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values that most Americans hold dear? Why does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride patriotism? In this explosive book, one of the nation's best known film critics examines how Hollywood has broken faith with its public, creating movies, television, and popular music that exacerbate every serious social problem we face, from teenage pregnancies to violence in the streets. Michael Medved powerfully argues that the entertainment business follows its own dark obsessions, rather than giving the public what it wants: In fact, the audience for feature films and network television has demonstrated its profound disillusionment in recent years, with disastrous consequences for many entertainment companies. Meanwhile, overwhelming numbers of our fellow citizens complain about the wretched quality of our popular culture - describing the offerings of the mass media as the worst ever. Medved asserts that Hollywood ignores - and assaults - the values of ordinary American families, pursuing a self-destructive and alienated ideological agenda that is harmful to the nation at large and to the industry's own interests. In hard-hitting chapters on "The Attack on Religion," "The Addiction to Violence," "Promoting Promiscuity," "The Infatuation with Foul Language," "Kids Know Best," "Motivations for Madness," and other subjects, Medved outlines the underlying themes that turn up again and again in our popular culture. He also offers conclusive evidence of the frightening real-world impact of these messages on our society and our children. Finally, Medved shows where and how Hollywood took a disastrous wrong turn toward its current crisis, and he outlines promising efforts both in and outside the industry to restore a measure of sanity and restraint to our media of mass entertainment. Sure to elicit strong response, whether it takes the form of cheers of support or howls of enraged dissent, Hollywood vs. America confronts head-on one of the most significant issues of our times.
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Sociology
Television -- Aspect moral
Television broadcasting -- Moral and ethical aspects
T�el�evision -- Aspect moral
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Collection "Culture populaire" -- United States -- Aspect moral
Culture conflict
Culture conflict -- United States
Culture in motion pictures
Culture populaire -- �Etats-Unis -- Aspect moral
Electronic books
Ethik
Fernsehen
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Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Popular culture -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Sociology
Television -- Aspect moral
Television broadcasting -- Moral and ethical aspects
T�el�evision -- Aspect moral
USA
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Hollywood vs. America : popular culture and the war on traditional values
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Hollywood vs. america [electronic resource] : Popular culture and the war on traditional values. Michael Medved
Hollywood vs. america [electronic resource] : Popular culture and the war on traditional values. Michael Medved
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Ethik
Fernsehen
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Sociology
Television
Television broadcasting
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Cin�ema
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Culture in motion pictures
Culture populaire
Ethik
Fernsehen
Moral and ethical aspects
Motion pictures
Nonfiction
Popular culture
Sociology
Television
Television broadcasting
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