David L. Paletz - The Media in American Politics - Contents and Consequences
pg 5
"...Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner assert that Hollywood films have historically displayed and therefore legitimated an ideology of 'capitalism (with its values of competition, upward mobility, and the survival of the fittest), patriarchy (with its privileging of men and its positioning of women in a secondary social role), and racism.' They concede that some popular Hollywood movies of the late 1960s and early 1970s registered the social issues and critical perspectives of the civil rights movement, feminism, the sexual revolution, antimilitarism, and environmentalism of the time. Thereafter, however, reflecting the failure of liberalism in the 1970s, 'conservative themes, characters, and styles began to dominate Hollywood film once again.'
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