Oscar Bait - The Academy Awards & Cultural Prestige

This book captures a dynamic snapshot of the Oscars and Hollywood in a critical era. Readers interested in media and cultural studies, celebrity studies, persona studies, popular culture and film will enjoy this book.

List of contents

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

About the author

Robert Boucaut (he/him) is a Lecturer in media at the University of Adelaide. His research analyses screen texts and stardoms for the mediated structures they occupy, the cultural concerns they embody, and the discursive actions of their audience. He has published works in Critical Studies in Television, Media International Australia, and International Journal of Communication.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Boucaut
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 26.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032982038
• ISBN: 978-1-032-98203-8
• No. of pages: 230
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; History, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, ART / Film & Video, Humanities, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism