Hollywood’s America: Social and Political Themes in Motion Pictures, by Stephen Powers, David J. Rothman, and Stanley Rothman (Westview, 320 pp., $22.95)
THIS book has a clear argument: Since the end of World War II, and especially since the 1960s, major structural changes in the American film industry have led to the formation of a small, ideologically uniform elite, operating without meaningful restraint or correction from the rest of the society. The result, say the authors, has been a drastic transformation in the content of movies—one that may or may not have destructive social effects but that is almost certainly irreversible.
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