In “That’s Entertainment? Hollywood’s Contribution to Anti- Americanism Abroad”, Michael Medved explains why people abroad hate America; Hollywood movies reflect a misunderstood image of the American civilization to the people around the world. Medved graduated with a bachelor’s degree in American history from Yale school; later on he attended Yale Law School for a year or so. Afterwards, he became a Hollywood campaign speechwriter and a political advisor, built on that he wrote a lot of film critiques. In addition, he became the Chief Film Critic for the New York Post. Currently he is a famous radio talk show entertainer and a successful author. Obviously, He has the credentials and qualification to write an article about Hollywood entertainment and how it influences people abroad.
In this article Medved clarifies why do people overseas hate America. Simply, anti- Americanism is caused by Hollywood entertainments. As a result, it reproduces a faulty and bad image to people’s visualizations. Hollywood movies misrepresent America in viciousness, criminal, harsh and dangerous way. Hence it represents a fake American life. So it presents to the people overseas that the Americans are dangerous and violent. The audience of America won’t be influenced because it’s their life but the audience overseas will, it will affect the way they think of America and its people. As a consequence to the bad images that misrepresent the American society, it triggers people to be prejudice towards America. This influence is caused from the indefinite demand of Hollywood movies around the world. Furthermore, Medved listed some examples of influenced people as well as a couple of expert’s opinion to support his argument or idea. To conclude his article, he recommended that the Hollywood franchise should present a well enhanced and a more appropriate image of the American civilization.
In this article, Medved over relied on a couple of things that caused his essay to be...