Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: OIL'S ORIGINS OF MODERNIZATION -- 1 Whale Oil Culture, Consumerism, and Modern Conservation -- 2 The Wizard of Oil: Abraham James, the Harmonial Wells, and the Psychometric History of the Oil Industry -- 3 Picturing a Crude Past: Primitivism, Public Art, and Corporate Oil Promotion in the United States -- 4 A Short History of Oil Cultures -- or, The Marriage of Catastrophe and Exuberance -- PART II: OIL'S GOLDEN AGE: LITERATURE, FILM, AND PROPAGANDA -- 5 Essential Driving and Vital Cars: American Automobile Culture in World War II -- 6 Fossil- Fuel Futurity: Oil in Giant -- 7 "Liquid Modernity": Sundown in Pawhuska, Oklahoma -- 8 From Isfahan to Ingolstadt: Bertolucci's La via del petrolio and the Global Culture of Neorealism -- PART III: THE LOCAL AND GLOBAL TERRITORIES OF OIL -- 9 Aramco's Frontier Story: The Arabian American Oil Company and Creative Mapping in Postwar Saudi Arabia -- 10 Oil Frontiers: The Niger Delta and the Gulf of Mexico -- 11 Petro-Magic-Realism Revisited: Unimagining and Reimagining the Niger Delta -- 12 Refined Politics: Petroleum Products, Neoliberalism, and the Ecology of Entrepreneurial Life -- 13 Gendering Oil: Tracing Western Petrosexual Relations -- PART IV: EXHIBITING OIL -- 14 Mixing Oil and Water: Naturalizing Offshore Oil Platforms in American Aquariums -- 15 Petroaesthetics and Landscape Photography: New Topographics, Edward Burtynsky, and the Culture of Peak Oil -- 16 Fossil, Fuel: Manifesto for the Post- Oil Museum -- PART V: THE FUTURE OF AND WITHOUT OIL -- 17 Retrofutures and Petrofutures: Oil, Scarcity, Limit -- 18 Crude Aesthetics: The Politics of Oil Documentaries -- 19 Oil and Dust: Theorizing Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia -- 20 Imagining Angels on the Gulf -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I.

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