Best-selling author, film critic and national television personality Michael Medved will discuss the film industry's increasing attacks on basic values Thursday, March 18, at 11 a.m. in Brigham Young University's de Jong Concert Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center.
The lecture, "Hollywood Lies," is sponsored by the BYU department of communications and the department of theater and film. It is free to the public.Medved is known to millions of Americans as the co-host of "Sneak Previews," the PBS half-hour weekly movie review. Before working as a critic, Medved served as a screenwriter on four major studio film projects and became a member of the Writers' Guild of America.
Medved's latest book, "Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values," generated intense publicity and controversy months before its release in October 1992.
In a speech at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich., Medved said that contrary to popular belief, Hollywood is not "merely giving the public what it wants."
Medved contends that analysis of the controversial content of recent films and their corresponding box office performance shows that Hollywood has different motives.