Living Oil - Petroleum Culture in the American Century

Zusatztext The book is a leisurely road trip through twentieth-century US media and culture, and LeMenager's goal Informationen zum Autor Stephanie LeMenager is Moore Endowed Professor of English at the University of Oregon. Klappentext Living Oil is a work of environmental cultural studies that engages with a wide spectrum of cultural forms, from museum exhibits and oil industry tours to poetry, documentary film, fiction, still photography, novels, and memoirs. The book's unique focus is the aesthetic, sensory, and emotional legacies of petroleum, from its rise to the preeminent modern fossil fuel during World War I through the current era of so-called "Tough Oil." LeMenager explores the uncomfortable, mixed feelings produced by oil's omnipresence in cultural artifacts such as books, films, hamburgers, and Aspirin tablets. The book makes a strong argument for the region as a vital intellectual frame for the study of fossil fuels, because at the regional level we can better recognize the material effects of petroleum on the day-to-day lives of humans and other, non-human lives. The fluid mobility of oil carries the book outside the United States, for instance to Alberta and Nigeria, emphasizing how both international and domestic resource regions have been mined to produce the idealized modern cultures of the so-called American Century. Zusammenfassung Living Oil is a work of environmental cultural studies that engages with a wide spectrum of cultural forms, from museum exhibits and oil industry tours to poetry, documentary film, fiction, still photography, novels, and memoirs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue Introduction - Ultradeep, Petroleum Culture in the American Century Chapter 1 - Origins, Spills Chapter 2 - The Aesthetics of Petroleum Chapter 3 - Petromelancholia Chapter 4 - The Petroleum Archive Epilogue Appendix Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie LeMenager, Stephanie (Associate Professor of Engli Lemenager, LeMenager Stephanie
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2016
• EAN: 9780190461973
• ISBN: 978-0-19-046197-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History; Oxford Studies in American Lit
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, The environment, Literary studies: general, Science / Environmental Science, History of the Americas