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The Oscars (Paperback, 3 Revised Edition)
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The Oscars (Paperback, 3 Revised Edition)
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Loot Price R36
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Born as an exercise in studio self-promotion, over the last 70
years the Academy Awards have been responsible for more crimes
against art, fashion, taste and talent than the complete oeuvre of
Cher (herself an Awards-night favourite). Great actors and
directors have been consistently, almost methodically, overlooked
by the Academy in favour of journeymen or novelty acts. Entire
careers have passed without reward while shockingly mediocre
pictures have been over-garlanded with honours. So why do the
Oscars matter so much? This completely unauthorised Pocket
Essential guide to the Oscars explains how the Awards can help us
to understand the history of Hollywood. In a decade-by-decade
account, it details how the Academy mirrored, endorsed or rejected
industry trends, be they technical (The Jazz Singer's exclusion
from competition at the first awards in 1927/8), artistic (the
long-standing favour extended to period dramas), or political (the
Academy's capitulation in the face of McCarthyism). The book also
includes a full list of Oscar winners in every category, as well as
the author's own nominations for Worst Oscar-nominated Films and
Shocking Oscar Oversights, making it the best-value, most
up-to-date guide available to this annual public celebration of
money, envy, spite and the movies.
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