8 eur + 2.40 de Portes (livro de 770 gramas, 1.80 de portes + .60 envelope almofadado)

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Emmanuel Levy: Oscar Fever - The History and Politics of the Academy Awards, Continuum, New York, 2001, (1ª edição absoluta), 370 páginas.

Livro em bom estado, com mínimos, normais sinais de uso, que se reduzem à sobrecapa, como pode ver nas fotos 1 a 3.

O livro em si, esse, está em muito bom estado (fotos 6 a 8), o miolo sem sublinhados, notas ou assinaturas de posse. Páginas impecáveis.

Ilustrado, 49 stills de filmes premiados.

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This jaunty and comprehensive look at Oscar history and lore encompasses the larger social and cultural implications of a narrow subject.

Levy, a senior film reviewer for Variety, draws on an extraordinarily detailed knowledge of Hollywood history, providing intriguing factoids to supplement his assertions and analysis about subjects like gender, age and race in Hollywood, and probing such essential questions as whether the Oscars are a ""popularity contest.""

Levy supplies all the technical details of the nomination process, the rank of the Oscars among other film industry awards and a wide array of statistics (e.g., 20% of all actresses and 5% of actors are under 25 years of age when they receive nominations for best performance).

Meanwhile, his analysis of why films about race, such as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and In the Heart of the Night, receive Oscar nominations is thoughtful and savvy.

No sociological question escapes Levy's notice, and he's got an answer for everything.

Do roles that emphasize suffering and victimization help women win Oscars? (Yes.)

Does the use of accents help performers win? (Not singlehandedly, but they help.)

Can even a single Oscar overhype a career? (Very often, yes.)

While on the surface these questions seem facile, he integrates them into the larger industry and social portrait, demonstrating their wider ramifications.