The box office word: give culture back to silent majority
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The US motion picture industry is undergoing significant change. Unlike in the past, film makers' focus more on goodness rather than viciousness. Film viewers, majority of whom still subscribe to traditional social values, have also come forward to patronize films that present positive values.
Publication Name: New Perspectives Quarterly
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0893-7850
Year: 1995
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Hollywood: an Oscar for misinformation?
Article Abstract:
In the information age, no medium is so powerful as the moving image and it has huge social, cultural and moral consequences. The vast plethora of information may lead to an ignorance of which to acknowledge and entertainers have a moral responsibility to uphold the values of society.
Publication Name: New Perspectives Quarterly
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0893-7850
Year: 1999
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God and Hollywood
Article Abstract:
The motion picture industry has a moral obligation to depict positive values. Although film makers have been criticized for contributing to the deterioration of American society, some of them try to depict the inherent goodness of the human spirit.
Publication Name: New Perspectives Quarterly
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0893-7850
Year: 1995
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