Petrocinema : sponsored film and the oil industry / editors Marina Dahlquist, Patrick Vonderau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dahlquist, Marina, author.

Vonderau, Patrick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--History.

Motion picture industry.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2021.

Summary:

"Petrocinema presents a collection of essays concerning the close relationship between the oil industry and modern media-especially film. Since the early 1920s, oil extracting companies such as Standard Oil, Royal Dutch/Shell, ConocoPhillips, or Statoil have been producing and circulating moving images for various purposes including research and training, safety, process observation, or promotion. Such industrial and sponsored films include documentaries, educationals, and commercials that formed part of a larger cultural project to transform the image of oil exploitation, creating media interfaces that would allow corporations to coordinate their goals with broader cultural and societal concerns. Falling outside of the domain of conventional cinema, such films firmly belong to an emerging canon of sponsored and educational film and media that has developed over the past decade. Contributing to this burgeoning field of sponsored and educational film scholarship, chapters in this book bear on the intersecting cultural histories of oil extraction and media history by looking closely at moving image imaginaries of the oil industry, from the earliest origins or ?spills? in the 20th century to today's post industrial ?petromelancholia.?."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Marina Dahlquist (Stockholm University, Sweden) and Patrick Vonderau (Stockholm University, Sweden)

1. Sponsored film and the petroleum extraction business: mapping the field / Patrick Vonderau (Stockholm University, Sweden)

2. Standard Oil, Disney, and the 1939 Golden Gate exposition / Susan Ohmer (University of Notre Dame, USA)

3. Petroleum and Hollywood stardom: making way for oil consumption through visual culture / Marina Dahlquist (Stockholm University, Sweden)

4. Industrial film and the politics of visibility / Brian R. Jacobson (University of Toronto, Canada)

5. "Fuelling apartheid:" documentary film in the service of apartheid / Jacqueline Maingard (University of Bristol, UK)

6. The American petroleum institute: sponsored motion pictures in the service of public relations / Gregory A. Waller (Indiana University, USA)

7. "All the earmarks of propaganda": Teapot Dome, the world struggle for oil, and defining corporate rhetoric / Jeremy W. Groskopf (Georgia State University, USA)

8. Residual slick: the discovery of "Modern Iran" in oil films negar Mottahedeh / (Duke University, USA)

9. Creating partners in progress: Shell communicating oil during Nigeria's independence / Rudmer Canjels (Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision, the Netherlands)

10. Oil aesthetics: BP, Greenpark Productions, and the projection of prestige / Patrick Russell (BFI National Archive, UK)

11. "In India's life and part of it:" Film and visual publicity at Burmah-Shell from the 1920s to the 1950s / Ravi Vasudevan (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501354151

1501354159

9781501354144

1501354140

9781501354168

1501354167

OCLC:

1229923994