Make Believe Media by Michael Parenti
The Politics of Entertainment
A pointed critique of the entertainment industry and its political effects, arguing that popular films, television, and news are shaped by corporate interests to manufacture consent, normalize inequality, and obscure real power relations. The book analyzes how story conventions, star systems, and genre fantasies divert attention from social problems, trivialize dissent, and present routinized representations of race, class, and gender that reinforce dominant ideologies. It shows how entertainment functions as ideological training—encouraging passive audiences, promoting consumerism and militarism, and marginalizing alternative voices—while calling for greater media literacy and more democratic, politically engaged forms of cultural production.
- Published
- 1992
- Nationality
- American
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- Original Language
- English
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