Oil Thinking of World Cinema
Oil and cinema are nearly of the same age: they both appeared in the second half of the 19th century. Oil, and more precisely, oil money has created the movies industry. As a confirmation, take one of the first feature films — it was entitled “In the Kingdom of Oil and Millions.”It was shot on the m...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Russian |
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Centre of Regional Research
2019-08-01
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| Series: | Проблемы постсоветского пространства |
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| Online Access: | https://www.postsovietarea.com/jour/article/view/194 |
| Summary: | Oil and cinema are nearly of the same age: they both appeared in the second half of the 19th century. Oil, and more precisely, oil money has created the movies industry. As a confirmation, take one of the first feature films — it was entitled “In the Kingdom of Oil and Millions.”It was shot on the money of oilmen in 1916 in Azerbaijan — the country supplying oil to thewhole world. V. Mayakovsky wrote that if you believed in good future, this was because theblack dense oil from Baku was pumped into hearts of world capitals.The oil industry developed hand-in-hand with the cinema industry. Today we cannot image theworld without both. In the present-day panorama of the world cinema oil has taken a specialplace — it is not only a decoration, but a full-fledged «actor». In the recent decades “films —hydrocarbons” have appeared in the world cinemas to respond to some accomplished historicalevent related to oil discovery, or enormous technogenic disaster entailing serious environmentalimplications. The role of oil can be comprehended only in the context of technological achievements in oil prospecting and oil production. Oil has technologized and commercialized thefilm-making industry — the films collecting multimillion audiences and, accordingly, returningthe millions invested in their making. The oil industry will develop and flourish with the growthof energy demand and, therefore, will grow the film-making industry and cinema business fedby oil-earned money. Filmmakers, using the modern digital and computer technologies, havesucceeded to demonstrate on the screen in a catchy artistic form many aspects of the «oil rush»in its retrospect. |
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| ISSN: | 2313-8920 2587-8174 |