| Description |
1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Energy and society |
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Energy and society.
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| Contents |
Part 1. When disaster strikes -- 1. Blackouts, bad guys, and belly laughs: exploring America's first cascading power failure in Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968) / Julie A. Cohn -- 2. Meltdown: nuclear cinema and the Martha Mitchell effect in The China Syndrome (1979) and Silkwood (1983) / Caroline Peyton -- 3. "The juice": The Road Warrior (1981) and the cultural logic of energy denial in the early days of modern globalization / Christopher R. W. Dietrich -- 4. Built for pyro: a perfect inferno on the Deepwater Horizon (2016) / Tyler Priest -- 5. Chernobyl (2019): a soviet propaganda win delivered thirty-three years late / Kate Brown -- Part 2: Energy and nature -- 6. Wings (1927): aviation, war, and energy / Conevery Bolton Valencius -- 7. Derricks and skulls: filming and promoting the extractive landscapes of Boom Town (1940) / Michaela Rife -- 8. Petrodocumentary in the 1940s: the Standard Oil photography project, Louisiana Story (1948), and the domestication of the US oil industry / Emily Roehl -- 9. TVA and the price of progress: Elia Kazan's Wild River (1960) / Donald C. Jackson -- 10. Do action movies and environmental messages mix? About as much as oil and water: On Deadly Ground (1994) / Teresa Sabol Spezio -- Part 3: Critiquing the western -- 11. Selling the American "oil frontier": Tulsa (1949), Giant (1956), and American resource politics during the early Cold War / Sarah Stanford-McIntyre -- 12. Ranches to oil wells: reconfiguring the western hero in Hellfighters (1968) and Fires of Kuwait (1992) / Ila Tyagi -- 13. Revisiting Matewan (1987): upending the Appalachian "western" and broadening an old labor tale / James R. Allison III -- 14. "This is the third world": coal-fired America in Montana (1990) and Powwow Highway (1989) / Ryan Driskell Tate -- 15. Hydrocarbon nostalgia and climate disaster: an environmental history of Hell or High Water (2016) / Mark Boxell -- Part 4: Energy and morality -- 16. Control of the industry: nineteenth-century oil and capitalism in High, Wide and Handsome (1937) / Alexander Finkelstein -- 17. The Formula (1980): corporate villains, synthetic fuel, and environmental fantasies / Raechel Lutz -- 18. "Keep moving": Convoy (1978), car films, and petropopulism in the 1970s / Caleb Wellum -- 19. There will be petroleum cinema: portraying the corrosion of oil addiction in There Will Be Blood (2007) / Brian C. Black -- Part 5: Energy and the state -- 20. There's no business like oil business: the allure of tax-sheltered oil income to Hollywood's wealthy / Yuxun Willy Tan -- 21. "Limitless power at man's command": A Is for Atom (1953), the Cold War, and visions of the nuclear future in the 1950s / Sarah E. Robey -- 22. Syriana (2005): the oil curse and Hollywood's 9/11 Film / Robert Lifset -- 23. Hoover Dam in Hollywood: energy anxiety in Superman (1978), Transformers (2007), and San Andreas (2015) / Daniel Macfarlane -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
"Historians investigate the relationships between film, culture, and energy"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History
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Power resources in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- In motion pictures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85141046
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stanford-McIntyre, Sarah, editor.
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Lutz, Raechel, editor.
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Lifset, Robert, 1974- editor.
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Project Muse. distributor.
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| LC no. |
2022049987 |
| ISBN |
9781952271779 |
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1952271770 |
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9781952271762 |
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1952271762 |
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