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Thanks, it does look like a start.
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  From: Henry Taylor 
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  Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 1:09 AM
  Subject: Re: Academy Awards Critique


  You may want to check out this site:


  http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/teachable_moments/analyzing_oscar.cfm


  Could be a starting point. There are also tons of books on the academy awards at amazon.com, mostly of a coffeetable or celebratory variety, but there might be something useful there.


  Henry










    I started this thread by asking for recommendations of critiques of the Academy Awards as an institution of socialization and, hence, of social control. I got no specific response. This suggests either (a) that no such critiques exist, or (b) if they do exist, no one on this list is aware of them. Both propositions are breathtakingly, jaw-droppingly improbable. Especially the first one. Surely it is impossible that there are no such critiques. I mean, Situationism offers an all-too-obvious entry point, just as one example. I am not interested in taking the Academy Awards seriously on the level of the rightness or wrongness of their decisions, or what they may reveal about our cultural biases (which deflects attention away from the Awards as such). Concerns about spectacle and the audience-nation, celebrity, affirmations of master narratives (the "American Dream"), hard work, reproduction of commercial cinema as the only cinema -- these are the only things to be talking about if one is at all serious about this particular social institution.


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      From: Tessa Dwyer
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      Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:56 AM
      Subject: Re: Academy Awards Critique


      Picking up on an old thread now, that evolved into a discussion of Mehta's film Water... 


      John Mowitt writes interestingly about the contradictions and compromises involved in the Academy Awards' Foreign Film category (in regard to language, national origin, ect...). See his 2005 publication: Re-Takes: Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Languages.


      Tessa
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