How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It

Chris Gerrard

Media creates a vision of the world, one which many of us take as directly representative of reality. However, throughout cinema and television hidden biases propagate beliefs and perpetuate worldviews. How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It attempts to uncover how media misrepresent the class power dynamics, celebrates free market ideology, and casts anyone who questions this orthodoxy as a villain. It also explores how the narratives present in popcorn entertainment can be appropriated into official political speech, representing the political engagement as a simplistic, capitalist, Hollywood fantasy.