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Oil Culture /

In the 150 years since the birth of the petroleum industry, oil has saturated our culture, fuelling 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 histo...

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Autres auteurs: Worden, Daniel, 1978- (Éditeur intellectuel), Barrett, Ross, 1977- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:In the 150 years since the birth of the petroleum industry, oil has saturated our culture, fuelling 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, the book offers the first sustained attempt to understand how petroleum has suffused the Western imagination.
Description:Some chapters originally appeared in the Journal of American studies, Volume 46, special issue 02 (May 2012).
Description matérielle:1 online resource (456 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781452943947