See the special issue of the open access journal MediaTopes on the topic of “Oil and Media, Oil as Media,” available here: https://mediatropes.com/index.php/Mediatropes
The Table of Contents:
Editorial Introduction | Oil and Media, Oil as Media: Mediating Petrocultures Then and Now, Jordan Kinder, Lucie Stepanik, i-xvi
Inscribing Interiority and Ideology: Representing the Visually Elusive in the American Petroleum Institute’s Cold War Films, Ila Tyagi, 1-18
Advertising an Empire of Oil: The British Petroleum Company and the Persian Khan Exhibit of 1924–1925, Ian Wereley, 19-39
“Standing Up for Canadian Oil & Gas Families”: Tracing Gender, Family, and Work In the Alberta Petro-economy, Alicia Massie & Emma Jackson, 40-66
Billboards and Petrocultures In West Texas, Giovanni Frigo, 67-104
Making “The Beast”: An Interview with Patrick McCurdy, Patrick McCurdy & Jordan B. Kinder, 105-119
Imagine It Thick In Your Own Skin: Sculptures and a Unique Artist’s Book, Heide Hatry, 120-137
Beyond Doom and Gloom in Petroaesthetics: Facing Oil, Making Energy Matter, Bart Welling, 138-174
“Take A Good Look At It”: Seeing Postcolonial Medianatures with Karen Tei Yamashita, Walter Gordon, 175-198
“Our Stories about Extraction”: A Brief Interview with Elizabeth LaPensée, Elizabeth LaPensée & Jordan B. Kinder, 199-208