Oil culture / Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden, editors.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
xxxiii, 424 pages ; 26 cm
In the 150 years since the birth of the petroleum industry oil has saturated our culture, fueling our cars and wars, our economy and policies. But just as thoroughly, culture saturates oil. So what exactly is "oil culture"? This book pursues an answer through petrocapitalism's history in literature, film, fine art, wartime propaganda, and museum displays. Investigating cultural discourses that have taken shape around oil, these essays compose the first sustained attempt to understand how petroleum has suffused the Western imagination. The contributors to this volume examine the oil culture nexus, beginning with the whale oil culture it replaced and analyzing literature and films such as Giant, Sundown, Bernardo Bertolucci's La Via del Petrolio, and Ben Okri's "What the Tapster Saw"; corporate art, museum installations, and contemporary photography; and in apocalyptic visions of environmental disaster and science fiction. By considering oil as both a natural resource and a trope, the authors show how oil's dominance is part of culture rather than an economic or physical necessity. Oil Culture sees beyond oil capitalism to alternative modes of energy production and consumption.-- Provided by Publisher
9780816689682 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816689687 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816689743 (pb ; alk. paper)
0816689741 (pb ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781452943954
Petroleum industry and trade United States History.
Manners and customs.
Petroleum industry and trade.
Erdölindustrie
Gesellschaftsleben
Brauch
United States Social life and customs.
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes.
United States.
USA
United States Social life and customs History.
History.
Barrett, Ross, 1977- editor.
Worden, Daniel, 1978- editor.
Location: Library main 292846
Call No.: BIB 237372
Status: Available
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