Petrocinema

Marina Dahlquist is a Professor of Cinema Studies at the Department for Media Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. She recently published The Institutionalization of Educational Cinema: North America and Europe in the 1910s and 1920s (2020, with Joel Frykholm), Corporeality in Early Cinema: Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form (2018, with Doron Galili, Jan Olsson, and Valentine Robert), and Exporting Perilous Pauline: Pearl White and the Serial Film Craze (2013). Patrick Vonderau is a Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Halle, Germany. Recent book publications include, among others, Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures (2020, with B. Florin and Y. Zimmermann), Films that Sell: Moving Pictures and Advertising (2016, with N. de Klerk and B. Florin), and Films that Work: Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media (2011, with V. Hediger). He is also an editor of the German scholarly journal Montage AV.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Marina Dahlquist and Patrick Vonderau

Oil Rhetoric
Chapter 1: Oil Media Archives
Mona Damluji

Chapter 2: “All the Earmarks of Propaganda”: Teapot Dome, The World Struggle for Oil, and Defining Corporate Rhetoric
Jeremy Groskopf

Chapter 3: Oil Aesthetics: BP, Greenpark Productions, and the Projection of Prestige
Patrick Russell and Steve Foxon

Advertisements and Sponsorship
Chapter 4: On the Road with Mickey and Donald: Walt Disney, Standard Oil and the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939
Susan Ohmer

Chapter 5: Petroleum and Hollywood Stardom: Making Way for Oil Consumption through Visual Culture
Marina Dahlquist

Chapter 6: The American Petroleum Institute: Sponsored Motion Pictures in the Service of Public Relations
Gregory A. Waller

Chapter 7: Industrial Film and the Politics of Visibility
Brian R. Jacobson

Transformation of Oil Politics
Chapter 8: “In India's Life and Part of It:” Film and Visual Publicity at Burmah-Shell from the 1920s to the 1950s
Ravi Vasudevan

Chapter 9: Creating Partners in Progress: Shell Communicating Oil during Nigeria’s Independence
Rudmer Canjels

Chapter 10: “Fuelling Apartheid:” Documentary Film in the Service of Apartheid
Jacqueline Maingard

Selected Bibliography
Index