Monday, March 28, 2022

Louisiana Story and Separation Between Humans and the Natural World: Reviewers' Take

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  Contemporaneous reviews of the film support the claim that the film’s source of financing does not detract from its success as a work of ...
Monday, March 21, 2022

Louisiana Story and Separation Between Humans and the Natural World: The Standard Oil Connection

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  The support for oil drilling and its benefits illustrated in Louisiana Story should come as no surprise because the Standard Oil Company ...
Monday, March 14, 2022

Approaches to Progress and Ecology in Louisiana Story and Thunder Bay

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  Although both films connect the oil industry with the environment, Robert Flaherty's  L ouisiana Story  (1948) and Anthony Mann's ...
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Monday, March 7, 2022

Oil Films and/or Interdependence

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    Filmic representations following Kerr-McGee’s success draw on a drive to minimize the conflict between the fishing and oil industries an...
Monday, February 28, 2022

The Search for the “Golden Shrimp”: The Myth of Interdependence in Oil Drilling Films

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According to John Ezell’s Innovations in Energy: The Story of Kerr-McGee, after the first successful oil well was drilled out of sight of la...
Monday, February 21, 2022

O Illinois!

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  O Illinois  I’m sending you a Hollywood postcard  a Collateral lush island  visor  a Dark City Shell Beach  nightmare  a six-year-old...
Monday, February 14, 2022

Quantum of Solace and Water Wars

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    After Bond and Camille escape by plane and parachute into Greene’s Bolivian eco-park, they find evidence for the real reason for Greene’...