The Representational Politics of Oscar Winning Movies of Obama Period

Julia G

doi:10.24113/ijellh.v9i5.11065

Abstract

This paper attempts to focus on Academy Awards belonging to a particular timeline, specifically during the administration Council of America's 44th President Barack Obama ( 20 January 2009 to 20 January 2017). It concentrates on the selection of movies and its themes that has been reflected in three wider sections such as war, black and LGBTQ movies. The primary objective of this particular paper is to discover the obscured and parallel politics that usher the process of selection in Academy. This paper tries to exemplify the actuality that in selecting foremost movies in the Academy entertain superior authority and their governance and also how the assessment of movies are culturally and politically biased. All discussed movies are the findings of chief objective and are primary sources that fundamentally appease its argument that selection of Oscar winning movies are culturally and politically biased.

Highlights

Sciences (AMPAS) annually, and is estimated through voting
The Academy was created in 1927 and the first Oscars were declared in 1929. Everything on this running globe is within the tangled motion of power politics
It could cover political events of past or the present 4. It could explore conflict between sovereign powers 5. It could very plainly be making a statement about an issue When we cross check the history of Oscar, winning movies largely record political inclination in its themes and philosophical contents

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Introduction

Sciences (AMPAS) annually, and is estimated through voting. The Academy was created in 1927 and the first Oscars were declared in 1929. It is an unquestioned fact that over 90 years of Oscar history, salient appraisal for movies goes for films under the banner of American creation. A big picture of this diplomatic affair can be comprehended when we inspect the rules for voting Oscar winning best movies.

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