Petrocinema

Petrocinema
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9781501354151
ISBN-13 : 1501354159
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Petrocinema by : Marina Dahlquist

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.”

Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies

Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies
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Publisher : LSU Press
Total Pages : 333
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ISBN-10 : 9780807172100
ISBN-13 : 0807172103
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies by : Zackary Vernon

As the planet faces ever-worsening disruptions to global ecosystems—carbon and chemical emissions, depletions of the ozone layer, the loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels, air toxification, and worsening floods and droughts—scholars across academia must examine the cultural effects of this increasingly postnatural world. That task proves especially vital for southern studies, given how often the U.S. South serves as a site for large-scale damming initiatives like the TVA, disasters on the scale of Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon spill, and the extraction of coal, oil, and natural gas. Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies is the first book-length collection of scholarship that applies interdisciplinary environmental humanities research to cultural analyses of the U.S. South. Sixteen essays examine novels, nature writing, films, television, and music that address a broad range of ecological topics related to the region, including climate change, manmade and natural environments, the petroleum industry, food cultures, waterways, natural and human-induced disasters, waste management, and the Anthropocene. Edited by Zackary Vernon, this volume demonstrates how the greening of southern studies, in tandem with the southernization of environmental studies, can catalyze alternative ways of understanding the connections between regional and global cultures and landscapes. By addressing ecological issues central to life throughout the South, Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies considers the confluence between region and environment, while also illustrating the growing need to see environmental issues as matters of social justice.

Toxic Substances Control Act: Reporting company section

Toxic Substances Control Act: Reporting company section
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1196
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951D01819090L
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Rating : 4/5 (0L Downloads)

Synopsis Toxic Substances Control Act: Reporting company section by : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Toxic Substances

Trademarks and product names section

Trademarks and product names section
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1200
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ISBN-10 : OSU:32435021918826
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Synopsis Trademarks and product names section by : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Toxic Substances

Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) chemical substance inventory

Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) chemical substance inventory
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1196
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ISBN-10 : MINN:30000010543886
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Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) chemical substance inventory by : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Toxic Substances

Toxic Substances Control Act: Trademarks and product names section

Toxic Substances Control Act: Trademarks and product names section
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1192
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951000167275W
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Synopsis Toxic Substances Control Act: Trademarks and product names section by : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Toxic Substances

Records & Briefs

Records & Briefs
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Total Pages : 1102
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ISBN-10 : LLMC:NYLOMWK71E0C
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Oil and Modern World Dramas

Oil and Modern World Dramas
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 412
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ISBN-10 : 9781000845921
ISBN-13 : 1000845923
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Oil and Modern World Dramas by : Alireza Fakhrkonandeh

The first to focus on the (re-)presentations of oil in dramatic literature, theatre, and performance, Oil and Modern World Dramas is a pioneering volume in the emerging field of Oil Literatures and Cultures, and the more established field of World Literatures. Through close analysis, Fakhrkonandeh demonstrates how these dramatic works depict oil, both in its perceived nature and character, as an overdetermined matter/sign/object: a symbol (of freedom, autonomy, speed, wealth, modernity, enlightenment), a commodity, a social-cultural agent, a social relation, and a hyper-object. This book is also distinguished by its innovative and critically manifold conceptual framework, positing the petro-literatures and petro-cultures an inextricable part of a global network. Oil and Modern World Dramas not only demonstrates how the chosen works of petro-drama manifest these concepts in their social-political vision, aesthetics and historical-ontological dynamics, but also reveals how they deploy such assemblage-based approaches both as a cartographical means and aesthetic method for exposing the systemic (Capitalocenic) nature of petro-capitalist exploitation, and as means of proposing ways of resistance and producing alternative modes of subjectivity, community, relationality, and economy.