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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog alternative "Hollywood versus America.".
- catalog contributor b3845282.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "A sickness in the soul -- A bias for the bizarre -- A declaration of war -- Comic book clergy -- Forgetting the faithful -- Promoting promiscuity -- Maligning marriage -- Encouraging illegitimacy -- Kids know best -- The urge to offend -- The infatuation with foul language -- The addiction to violence -- Bashing America -- Denial behavior -- A fun-house mirror -- What went wrong -- Motivations for madness -- "The end of the beginning."".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references ( p. [347]- 370 and index.".
- catalog description "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. ".
- catalog description "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. ".
- catalog extent "xiii, 386 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Hollywood vs. America.".
- catalog identifier "006016882X (cloth) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Hollywood vs. America.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, NY : HarperCollins : Zondervan,".
- catalog relation "Hollywood vs. America.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "302.23/43/0973 20".
- catalog subject "Culture conflict United States.".
- catalog subject "Culture in motion pictures.".
- catalog subject "Motion pictures Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog subject "PN1994 .M379 1992".
- catalog subject "Popular culture Moral and ethical aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "Popular culture United States Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog subject "Television broadcasting Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A sickness in the soul -- A bias for the bizarre -- A declaration of war -- Comic book clergy -- Forgetting the faithful -- Promoting promiscuity -- Maligning marriage -- Encouraging illegitimacy -- Kids know best -- The urge to offend -- The infatuation with foul language -- The addiction to violence -- Bashing America -- Denial behavior -- A fun-house mirror -- What went wrong -- Motivations for madness -- "The end of the beginning."".
- catalog title "Hollywood versus America.".
- catalog title "Hollywood vs. America : popular culture and the war on traditional values / Michael Medved.".
- catalog type "text".