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Title: Hollywood vs. America by Michael Medved ISBN: 0-06-092435-7 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 04 August, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (31 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent Observation
Comment: Michael Medved's "Hollywood Vs. America" is an excellent observation of how out of touch Hollywood is with America and how they are influencing our youth.
Michael looks at many different aspects of Hollywood and the media but he really takes a good look at how they handle the subject of sex. He points out how Hollywood has made sex a requirement for any movie to be "romantic." Because of his observations on this subject, it has made me review some of the movies I consider "my favorites" and I've made a decision to not watch them or recommend them anymore.
While he makes his Judeo-Christian views apparent in many different parts of the book, he also uses a lot of common sense when addressing many of the issues. He points out that some of us can watch a movie and see people brutally murdered and we sit there with no reaction at all. I have caught myself becoming "numb" to a lot of the violence in movies. Sure, it isn't going to make me run out and commit these acts, but it has become commonplace to see heads explode or people dismembered that a lot of us are not even aware of how horrific these scenes are.
He also points out that less than 5% of movies in the past 15 years show religion in a positive way. I couldn't agree more. Recently, there have been movies (Return To Me, The Apostle, Signs) that show how a long-suffering faith in God can bring you through everything. Why is it that Hollywood can't see that a lot more than 5% of Americans have a religious faith and would like to see more of that in films? It is a shame.
This is an excellent commentary on today's time. It does tend to get a little repetitive and tedious toward the end but he does make excellent observations and leaves it up to you to decide.
Rating: 4
Summary: Entertaining and informative
Comment: I imagine the reviews of this book will be split two ways: On one side, they'll say Medved is just another member of the Religious Right trying to make everyone conform to a boring religious regime.
On the other side, people will say it's a well-deserved attack on the entertainment industry at large. It is neither. Medved points out that no one movie, no one song title, no one T.V. show should be cancelled, censored, etc.
What Medved does is point out the self-destructive trends of the entertainment industry elite to flood the market with material of little worth in the name of profits or a cause. In the former, he proves that movies have been steadily repulsing more and more of the public, and decreasing the chances of bringing in families, where the real money is. In the latter matter, he shows beyond a doubt that a very narrow viewpoint is being portrayed in hollywood, to the nearly complete exclusion of all other views. A move detrimental to Americans AND the entertainment industry.
Anyone who wants to get an idea of where the entertainment industry has been, and is taking American viewers, should read this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: very biased...
Comment: This is undoubedly the most biased book I have ever read yet. I am a media scholar, but I don't base arguments on the preceptive, non-universal paradigm of morality. Morality varies from person to person depending on class, age, gender, ethnicity, etc... This book is entirely based on an old, out-of-date theory of media influence which has been scientifically dis-proven. (Hypodermic theory). In short, not everyone interprets the content on the screen the same way. "Audiences negotiate meaning."
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Title: Saving Childhood : Protecting Our Children from the National Assault on Innocence by Michael Medved, Diane Medved ISBN: 0060932244 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 15 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: America's Real War by Rabbi Daniel Lapin ISBN: 1576736555 Publisher: Multnomah Pub. Date: 30 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values by TAMMY BRUCE ISBN: 0761516638 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Tales from the Left Coast: True Stories of Hollywood's Stars and Their Outrageous Politics by James L. Hirsen ISBN: 0761517855 Publisher: Crown Forum Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds by Tammy Bruce, Laura C. Schlessinger ISBN: 0761563733 Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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