The Oscars x Symbolic Capital

Did you watch The Oscars? Did you formerly watch The Oscars but don't anymore? Do you only consume The Oscars via clips on social media? Well guess what? No matter how you answered, you're not alone! In this week's episode, Hannah and Marcelle talk about the changing zeitgeisty-ness of the Academy Awards through a deep dive on the awards' early days, its legacy and what we might make of the show's move to Youtube starting 2029. Drawing on theorist Robert Boucault's new book, Oscar Bait: The Academy Awards & Cultural Prestige , Hannah helps us understand the complex ways the Oscars navigate various forms of capital in the field of filmmaking. We talk elitism, cultural capital, symbolic capital and capital intraconversion! Happy listening! Related Listening Book 4, Episode 8: Magical Capital (from Witch, Please Reboot ) Dopamine x Health Capitalism with Jesse Meadows Barbie x Petro-Capitalism Works Cited Baragona, Louis. “How the Oscars has changed over the past 92 years.” Business Insider 23 April 2021. . Boucault, Robert. Oscar Bait: The Academy Awards & Cultural Prestige . New York: Routledge, 2026. . Feinberg, Scott. “Oscars’ TV Ratings Headache Turns Into a Migraine.” The Hollywood Reporter 2 March 2022. . Feinberg, Scott, and Alex Weprin. “Oscars Bolts From ABC to YouTube Starting in 2029.” The Hollywood Reporter 17 December 2025. . Rao, Sonia. “Why do the Oscars Matter?” The Washington Post 16 April 2021. Richardson, Kalia. “A Decade After , Can Hollywood Do Better?” Rolling Stone 2 March 2025. . Thomson, David. “The House That Mr. Mayer Built: Inside the Union-Busting Birth of the Academy Awards.” Vanity Fair 21 February 2014. . Support Material Girls To learn more about the show, head to our Instagram at instagram.com/ohwitchplease! Or check out our website ohwitchplease.ca (you can also find transcripts here!). Want to support the podcast and our tiny, hard-working team? Check out all the content we have on our Patreon at Patreon.com/ohwitchplease. Bonus episodes, bloopers, merch, watch-alongs, and more! Need a last minute gift for a friend or family member? You can gift a Patreon subscription at this link: ! Music Credits: “Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020 Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Oscars x Symbolic Capital is an episode from Episodes – Witch, Please by Rehak Hannah.

This episode is 57:59 long.

This episode was published on Mar 24, 2026.

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