{"product_id":"living-oil-petroleum-culture-in-the-american-century-hardcover","title":"Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephanie LeMenager\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiving Oil\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of environmental cultural studies that engages with a wide spectrum of cultural forms, from museum exhibits and oil industry tours to poetry, documentary film, fiction, still photography, novels, and memoirs. The book's unique focus is the aesthetic, sensory, and emotional legacies of petroleum, from its rise to the preeminent modern fossil fuel during World War I through the current era of so-called \"Tough Oil.\" LeMenager explores the uncomfortable, mixed feelings produced by oil's omnipresence in cultural artifacts such as books, films, hamburgers, and Aspirin tablets. The book makes a strong argument for the region as a vital intellectual frame for the study of fossil fuels, because at the regional level we can better recognize the material effects of petroleum on the day-to-day lives of humans and other, non-human lives. The fluid mobility of oil carries the book outside the United States, for instance to Alberta and Nigeria, emphasizing how both\u003cbr\u003einternational and domestic resource regions have been mined to produce the idealized modern cultures of the so-called American Century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStephanie LeMenager\u003c\/strong\u003e is Moore Endowed Professor of English at the University of Oregon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 22, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754039607584,"sku":"9780199899425","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/15d72fb7c5868704eb977ab7212f212f.webp?v=1780032090","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/living-oil-petroleum-culture-in-the-american-century-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}