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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University of Toronto Libraries
2020-02-01
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Online Access: | https://mediatropes.com/index.php/Mediatropes/article/view/33667 |