My interest in studying the Oscar Awards in a more systematic and throrough waysm began in 1977, when I was asked to teach a course on popular culture at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). But my curiosity about the Oscar as a uniquely American spectacle goes much farther back, inm […]

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