Every year we reaffirm our vows about how much we don't care about the Oscars because the Oscars don't matter because the Oscars only care about Oscar bait - but when did Oscar bait start to become a Thing in the first place?
Mini - Canon: "Oscar Bait": A History
Mel Brooks, The Producers and the Ethics of Satire about N@zis
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Genres Tell No Tales
Nostalgia Chick - The Smurfette Principle
Planting and Payoff - Featuring Mad Max: Fury Road
The Ideology of the First Order
My Monster Boyfriend
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