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  Authenticity, The Academy, and the Commodification of Activism: How Oscar Acceptance Becomes Political Platform

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  Ryan Castillo University of Denver

  February 27, 2013

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  celebrities.  Since Marlon Brando's 1973 Academy Best Actor win for The Godfather and his controversial ... Sean Penn’s Best Actor win for Milk where he deemed Academy voters “Comi-Homo-loving ... sons-of-guns;" or Hillary Swank's call for "uniting through difference" in her win for the ...
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  The Internet’s Commandeering of Bernie Sanders

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  Sara Stafford Georgia State University

  October 05, 2016

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  it was just that those supporters did not transfer to a winning political narrative. This shows that ...
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  Indigenous Performance Networks: Media, Community, Activism 

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  Joanna Hearne University of Missouri

  May 24, 2021

  this moment—Waitit’s win, and his speech—has multiple genealogies, some obvious and others more hidden, ...