Michael Parenti, a marxist historian, wrote a book called Make Believe Media that takes a critical view at the film and television industry in North America. Parenti argues that the film and television industry promotes the ideas of the political and economic forces that control them. These ideas are often anti-labour, militarist, as well as implicitly xenophobic, racist, and sexist. He advocates for viewers to watch the media with a critical eye. He also provides some alternative films, that take a progressive stance and have become popular despite the repression of these films by the mass media.
