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Fuelling the Nation: Imaginaries of Western Oil in Canadian Nontheatrical Film

机译:为国家加油:加拿大非戏剧电影中西方石油的想象

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Background Canadian nontheatrical cinema has historically positioned natural resource extraction as intrinsic to the countiy's economic development and national identity. During the 1940s and 1950s in particular with the discovery of Alberta's vast oil reserves, industrial and documentary films about oil extraction associated petroleum with nation-building and modernization.Analysis This article examines The Story of Oil (1946, produced by the National Film Board of Canada), A Mile Below the Wheat (1949, sponsored by Imperial Oil), and Underground East (1953. sponsored by Imperial Oil) as examples of such "petro-films" following the oil booms in Turner Valley and Leduc, Alberta.Conclusion and implications The author demonstrates how these texts sought to position Western oil development in relation to contemporaneous resource industries, namely wheat agriculture and ranching. These films leveraged such comparisons to other regional "fuels" to situate petroleum within pre-existing national imaginaries about Canada's twentieth-cen-tury resource economy, and normalize the oil industry's land-use practices and transportation infrastructures like pipelines.
机译:背景技术加拿大的非戏剧性电影院在历史上一直将自然资源的提取定位为县的经济发展和民族特征的内在因素。特别是在1940年代和1950年代,由于发现了艾伯塔省的大量石油,有关石油开采的石油和工业纪录片与国家建设和现代化联系在一起。分析本文考察了《石油的故事》(1946年,由美国国家电影局制作)加拿大),《小麦下的一英里》(1949年,由帝国石油公司赞助)和《地下地下》(1953年,由帝国石油公司赞助),作为在特纳谷和艾伯塔省莱杜克的石油繁荣之后的“石油胶片”的例子。作者:作者和作者展示了这些文献如何试图将西方石油开发与同时代资源产业,即小麦农业和牧场相关。这些电影利用与其他区域“燃料”的比较,将石油置于有关加拿大二十世纪资源经济的国家假想中,并使石油工业的土地使用惯例和管道等运输基础设施正常化。

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