Michael Medved "Hollywood Versus America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values."

This critique of the anti-religious, pro-violence, unpatriotic and amoral entertainment industry examines, with facts and statistics, how Hollywood bigwigs have broken faith with the public. They are creating movies, television and popular music that exacerbate every serious social problem, from teenage pregnancy to violence in the streets. Despite dwindling audiences and financial loss, Hollywood refuses to reflect - or even respect - the values of ordinary American families. Medved asserts that Hollywood's alienated ideological agenda is harmful not just to the industry's own interests, but to the USA at large.

Michael Medved says that the aesthetic and moral sewer which is Hollywood is justified neither artistically nor commercially but seems to emerge from a small group of middle-class intellectuals with a Leftist political agenda. The barrage of anti-patriotic, anti-religious and anti-capitalist propaganda is a central component of all so-called 'serious' Hollywood films. Medved discusses the problems caused by explicit scenes of violence, bad language and sex (denials of the adverse affects of which on viewers, especially the young, pass credence) and passionately argues for traditional moral and social values and for more of what he calls 'family entertainment'. Medved's proof is the apparently perverse fact that Hollywood studios make proportionately far more money from family films than from 'adult' films, but they make many fewer such movies.

Hardcover, 1992. New book. Minor shelf wear to DJ. A couple of tiny dots on top.

See also: Patrick McGilligan, Paul Buhle "Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist."