Monday, April 25, 2022

Louisiana Story and Oil Drilling Mythology, continued

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  Yet just as the alligator is ultimately killed in Louisiana Story, when the boy’s father intervenes, the oil drilling succeeds when, acc...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Louisiana Story and Oil Myths

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  After this long segment demonstrating the process of oil drilling, however, a scene in  Louisiana Story  shifts back to the boy and his ra...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Can Oil and Water Mix? Louisiana Story's take...

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  Although based in fantasy rather than reality, evidence in Louisiana Story  suggests that nature and culture can and must remain separated...
Monday, April 4, 2022

Myth of Separation between Oil and Nature in Louisiana Story

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    Despite clear evidence that oil drilling cannot leave the water and land around it untouched, the film and its reviewers assert the oppo...
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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