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Hollywood vs. America电子书

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作       者:Medved, Michael

出  版  社:HarperCollins e-books

出版时间:2011-04-01

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Why does our popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values that most Americans hold dearWhy does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride patriotismIn 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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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition

PART I: THE POISON FACTORY

1: A Sickness in the Soul

2: A Bias for the Bizarre

PART II : THE ATTACK ON RELIGION

3: A Declaration of War

4: Comic Book Clergy

5: Forgetting the Faithful

PART III: THE ASSAULT ON THE FAMILY

6: Promoting Promiscuity

7: Maligning Marriage

8: Encouraging Illegitimacy

9: Kids Know Best

PART IV : THE GLORIFICATION OF UGLINESS

10: The Urge to Offend

11: The Infatuation with Foul Language

12: The Addiction to Violence

13: Hostility to Heroes

14: Bashing America

PART V: AN INESCAPABLE INFLUENCE

15: Denial Behavior

16: A Fun-House Mirror

PART VI: BELOW THE BOTTOM LINE

17: What Went Wrong

18: Motivations for Madness

19: “The End of the Beginning”

Notes on Sources

Index

Acknowledgments

Also by Michael Medved

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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