Some chapters originally appeared in the Journal of American Studies, Volume 46, Special Issue 02 (May 2012). Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Oil's origins of modernization. Whale oil culture, consumerism, and modern conservation / Heidi Scott ; The wizard of oil : Abraham James, the Harmonial wells, and the psychometric history of the oil industry / Rochelle Raineri Zuck ; Picturing a crude past : primitivism, public art, and corporate oil promotion in the United States / Ross Barrett ; A short history of oil cultures; or, the marriage of catastrophe and exuberance / Frederick Buell -- Oil's golden age : literature, film, and propaganda. Essential driving and vital cars : American automobile culture in World War II / Sarah Frohardt-Lane ; Fossil-fuel futurity : oil in Giant / Daniel Worden ; "Liquid modernity" : Sundown in Pawhuska, Oklahoma / Hanna Musiol ; From Isfahan to Ingolstadt : Bertolucci's La via del petrolio and the global culture of neorealism / Georgiana Banita -- The local and global territories of oil. Aramco's frontier story : the Arabian American Oil Company and creative mapping in postwar Saudi Arabia / Chad H. Parker ; Oil frontiers : the Niger Delta and the Gulf of Mexico / Michael Watts ; Petro-magic-realism revisited : unimagining and reimagining the Niger Delta / Jennifer Wenzel ; Refined politics : petroleum products, neoliberalism, and the ecology of entrepreneurial life / Matthew T. Huber ; Gendering oil : tracing western petrosexual relations / Sheena Wilson -- Exhibiting oil. Mixing oil and water : naturalizing offshore oil platforms in American aquariums / Dolly Jørgensen ; Petroaesthetics and landscape photography : New topographics, Edward Burtynsky, and the culture of peak oil / Catherine Zuromskis ; Fossil, fuel : manifesto for the post-oil musuem / Stephanie LeMenager -- The future of and without oil. Retrofutures and petrofutures : oil, scarcity, limit / Gerry Canavan ; Crude aesthetics : the politics of oil documentaries / Imre Szeman ; Oil and dust : theorizing Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia / Melanie Doherty ; Imagining angels on the gulf / Ruth Salvaggio.
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