Inscribing Interiority and Ideology: Representing the Visually Elusive in the American Petroleum Institute’s Cold War Films

Films sponsored by the American oil industry during the Cold War often pit communism and capitalism against each other, arguing for the latter’s ideological superiority. Since abstract ideologies are difficult to represent visually, the battle takes concrete form via depictions of layers of undergro...

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Main Author: Ila Tyagi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Toronto Libraries 2020-02-01
Series:MediaTropes
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Online Access:https://mediatropes.com/index.php/Mediatropes/article/view/33667