Oscar Bait : The Academy Awards & Cultural Prestige (Hardcover)

1. What is Oscar Bait?: Opening Monologue?PART I: Oscars Knowledges?2. Understanding the Oscars 3. Theorising ‘Oscar’: An Institutional Persona?PART II: The Modern Oscars?4. “WTF Is the Academy Thinking?”: The Oscars: 2019-2021 5. “The Film is Totally Feminist”: Exploring Identity Intersections 6. “There Can Be a Hundred People in the Room”: Celebrities Pursuing Greatness 7. “I’m Allergic to That Movie”: Oscar’s Evaluative Frameworks 8. “As Someone Who Has Endured Far More than His Fair Share of Oscar Bait…”: The Meanings of Oscar 9. “The Academy Congratulates Anthony Hopkins and Accepts the Oscar on His Behalf” [Roll Credits]: Closing the Show