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Monday, June 16, 2014

Oil and Culture In Alberta

A New Book and a New Thesis


On Fracking
Alexia Lane
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/1927330807
A Manifesto booklet
from  Rocky Mountain Books
Some good information.










and



Framing Alberta's Bitumen Extraction Onscreen

 

A new doctoral thesis from George Takach examining films about the tar sands / oil sands with an emphasis on works produced from 2005 onwards. Takach examines how they frame the issues and argues:

"unconventional oil seems to have overtaken cowboys and Rocky Mountains as the primary symbol of the province in the global public's imagination."

Find the thesis here at:

theses.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/11023/1050/4/ucalgary_2013_takach_geo.pdf


 

See below for the list of the films that George analyzed using a media frame analysis.

Appendix E: Films and Videos Studied
The following list of films and videos includes URLs linking to capsule summaries of each production, except for two cases where the producer is the Government of Alberta
and for which no official links are available.


Pay Dirt
(Palmer 2005)
www.worldcat.org/title/pay-dirt - making-the-unconventional-conventional/oclc/797128543?referer=br&ht=edition


Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta(Radford 2008)
www.cbc.ca/documentaries/discussion/2008/03/tar-sands-the-selling-of-alberta-1.html


Downstream
(Iwerks 2008)
www.downstreamdoc.com

Petropolis
(Mettler 2009)
www.petropolis-film.com


H2Oil
(S. Walsh 2009)
h2oildoc.com/home/about-the-film


An Open Door
(Alberta 2009)


Land of Oil and Water: Aboriginal Voices on Life in the Oil Sands and Overburden(McArthur and Cariou 2010)
landofoil.com/Home.html


Dirty Oil
(Iwerks 2010)
thoughtmaybe.com/dirty-oil


Canada’s Oil Sands: Come See for Yourself
(Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers - CAPP 2010)
www.capp.ca/canadaIndustry/oilSands/Dialogue- Resources/oil-sands-videos/Pages/Oil-Sands-Tour.aspx


Alberta: Tell It Like It Is
AKA
About the Oil Sands
(Alberta 2010)
www.oilsands.alberta.ca/about.html


Tipping Point
(Radford & Thompson 2011)
www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episode/tipping-point.html


White Water, Black Gold
(Lavallee 2011)
www.whitewaterblackgold.com/about


Pipe Dreams
(Iwerks 2011)
pipedreamsdoc.com

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