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Oil Culture

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Description for Oil Culture Paperback. Editor(s): Barrett, Ross; Worden, Daniel. Num Pages: 456 pages, 37 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JHMC; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 177 x 25. Weight in Grams: 810.


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 ... Read more

Contributors: Georgiana Banita, U of Bamberg; Frederick Buell, Queens College; Gerry Canavan, Marquette U; Melanie Doherty, Wesleyan College; Sarah Frohardt-Lane, Ripon College, Matthew T. Huber, Syracuse U; Dolly Jørgensen, Umeå U; Stephanie LeMenager, U of Oregon; Hanna Musiol, Northeastern U; Chad H. Parker, U of Louisiana at Lafayette; Ruth Salvaggio, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Heidi Scott, Florida International U; Imre Szeman, U of Alberta; Michael Watts, U of California, Berkeley; Jennifer Wenzel, Columbia University; Sheena Wilson, U of Alberta; Rochelle Raineri Zuck, U of Minnesota Duluth; Catherine Zuromskis, U of New Mexico.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816689743
SKU
V9780816689743
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Ross Barrett (Ed.)
Ross 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.

Reviews for Oil Culture
"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 "Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden's Oil Culture offers lively and ... Read more

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