Hollywood vs. America, Michael Medved
Hollywood vs. America, Michael Medved
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Hollywood vs. America
Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values

Author: Michael Medved

Narrator: David Hilder

Unabridged: 13 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/14/2014


Synopsis

Why does our popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values that 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 nations 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. In hard-hitting chapters on The Attack on Religion, The Addiction to Violence, Promoting Promiscuity, The Infatuation with Foul Language, and other subjects, Medved outlines the underlying themes that turn up again and again in our popular culture.

About Michael Medved

Michael Medved, author and film critic, co-hosted PBS’ Sneak Previews for twelve years and was film critic for the New York Post for five years. He wrote Hospital, The Shadow Presidents, and, with co-writer with David Wallechinsky, What Really Happened to the Class of ‘65? An honors graduate of Yale, he also attended Yale Law School. He lives in Seattle with his wife and children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Willow

This book was recommended to me by a friend who let me borrow it. When I actually sat down to start reading it, I knew I was in trouble seeing the ringing endorsement of Rush Limbaugh emblazoned on the cover. Written in 1991, Michael Medved examines what he calls Hollywood's "assault" on traditional......more

Goodreads review by Miles

Michael Medved, along with a dozen other critics, saw an advance screening of 1CThe Last Temptation of Christ 1D one summer afternoon in 1988, a couple of weeks before the film 19s release. While the nearly three-hour film was being shown, Medved says that several of his fellow critics snorted and c......more

Goodreads review by John

“Hollywood Vs. America” was published in 1992. In this book Michael Medved blames the Hollywood of this era for using gratuitous sex and violence, and obscene words in order to ridicule Christianity and marriage. He also presents surveys that indicate that most Americans dislike gratuitous sex and v......more

Goodreads review by Robert

The only factor preventing this book from getting a five-star rating is its age. At the same time, the perspective of reading this book almost a quarter-century after it was published confirms the true prescience of the author. To truly appreciate this book, the reader should be mindful that when it......more