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OverviewInvestigating cultural discourses that have takenshape around oil, these essays in Oil Culture compose the firstsustained attempt to understand how petroleum has suffused the Westernimagination. By considering oil as both a natural resource and a trope, theauthors show how oil's dominance is part of culture rather than an economic orphysical necessity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ross Barrett , Daniel Worden , Allan StoeklPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.794kg ISBN: 9780816689743ISBN 10: 0816689741 Pages: 456 Publication Date: 20 October 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Foreword Allan Stoekl Acknowledgments Introduction Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden Part I. Oil's Origins and Modernization 1. Whale Oil Culture, Consumerism, and Modern Conservation Heidi Scott 2. The Wizard of Oil: Abraham James, the Harmonial Wells, and the Psychometric History of the Oil Industry Rochelle Raineri Zuck 3. Picturing a Crude Past: Primitivism, Public Art, and Corporate Oil Promotion in the United States Ross Barrett 4. A Short History of Oil Cultures; or, The Marriage of Catastrophe and Exuberance Frederick Buell Part II. Oil’s Golden Age: Literature, Film, and Propaganda 5. Essential Driving and Vital Cars: American Automobile Culture in World War II Sarah Frohardt-Lane 6. Fossil-Fuel Futurity: Oil in Giant Daniel Worden 7. Liquid Modernity: Sundown in Pawhuska, Oklahoma Hanna Musiol 8. From Isfahan to Ingolstadt: Bertolucci’s La via del petrolio and the Global Culture of Neorealism Georgiana Banita Part III. The Local and Global Territories of Oil 9. Aramco’s Frontier Story: The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Saudi Arabia Chad H. Parker 10. Oil Frontiers: The Niger Delta and the Gulf of Mexico Michael Watts 11. Petro-magic-realism Revisited: Unimagining and Reimagining the Niger Delta Jennifer Wenzel 12. Refined Politics: Petroleum Products, Neoliberalism, and the Ecology of Entrepreneurial Life Matthew T. Huber 13. Gendering Oil: Tracing Western Petrosexual Relations Sheena Wilson Part IV. Exhibiting Oil 14. Mixing Oil and Water: Naturalizing Offshore Oil Platforms in American Aquariums Dolly Jørgensen 15. Petroaesthetics and Landscape Photography: New Topographics, Edward Burtynsky, and the Culture of Peak Oil Catherine Zuromskis 16. Fossil, Fuel: Manifesto for the Post-Oil Museum Stephanie LeMenager Part V. The Future of and without Oil 17. Retrofutures and Petrofutures: Oil, Scarcity, Limit Gerry Canavan 18. Crude Aesthetics: The Politics of Oil Documentaries Imre Szeman 19. Oil and Dust: Theorizing Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia Melanie Doherty 20. Imagining Angels on the Gulf Ruth Salvaggio Contributors IndexReviewsRoss Barrett and Daniel Worden's <i>Oil Culture</i> offers lively and passionate discussions of oil's ubiquitous yet sometimes invisible cultural presence. <i>Journal of Historical Geography</i></p> The collection s strength lies in its ability to provoke new lines of inquiry, especially with regard to the intersections of energy studies and cultural studies. <i>Environmental History</i></p> What Oil Culture brings to the table of global scholarship is an incredibly savvy intellectual manoeuvre that links Oil Studies with Cultural Studies <i>Oil Culture</i></p> A groundbreaking work in oil studies that will provoke future critical conversation about and study of petrocapitalism, cultural representations of oil, and imaginative renderings of a post-oil future. <i>The Year s Work in English Studies</i></p> Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden's Oil Culture offers lively and passionate discussions of oil's ubiquitous yet sometimes invisible cultural presence. -Journal of Historical Geography The collection's strength lies in its ability to provoke new lines of inquiry, especially with regard to the intersections of energy studies and cultural studies. -Environmental History What Oil Culture brings to the table of global scholarship is an incredibly savvy intellectual manoeuvre that links Oil Studies with Cultural Studies -Oil Culture A groundbreaking work in oil studies that will provoke future critical conversation about and study of petrocapitalism, cultural representations of oil, and imaginative renderings of a 'post-oil future.' -The Year's Work in English Studies Author InformationRoss Barrett is assistant professor of art history at the University of South Carolina. Daniel Worden is associate professor of art at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Allan Stoekl is professor of French and comparative literature at Penn State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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