The rise and fall of the Synthetic: The mediatization of Canada's oil sands.

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.1177/13678779231159697

Patrick McCurdy

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Abstract

The concept of the Synthetic is developed to trace and trouble the prevailing popular mythology of Alberta's oil sands and place the omnipresence of petro-hegemony into focus in a time of crisis and transition. The Synthetic is theorized as a period of petroculture beginning in the late 1960s with the rise of Alberta's oil sands industry together with a rise in oil sands narratives, docudrama, and the emergence of mediated or synthetic politics reliant upon processed images. Attention focuses on three mediated moments within the Synthetic beginning with the banned 1977 CBC docudrama The Tar Sands and the reaction of Premier Peter Lougheed. This signals the power and grip of oil's hegemony. Second, the short film Synergy produced for Expo 86 captures the thickening of synthetic culture and oil's saturation of the public imagination. Finally, the controversy manufactured by Alberta's Canadian Energy Centre over the animated film Bigfoot Family suggests petro-hegemony's loosening grip.

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合成油砂的兴衰:加拿大油砂的媒介化。

Synthetic的概念是为了追踪和挑战阿尔伯塔省油砂的流行神话，并在危机和过渡时期将无处不在的石油霸权置于焦点之中。“合成”被认为是石油文化的一个时期，始于20世纪60年代末，随着阿尔伯塔省油砂工业的兴起，油砂叙事、纪实剧的兴起，以及依赖于处理过的图像的调解或合成政治的出现。人们的注意力集中在合成人体内的三个调解时刻，从1977年被禁的CBC纪录片《焦油砂》开始，以及总理彼得·洛希德的反应。这标志着石油霸权的力量和控制力。其次，为86年世博会制作的短片《协同》捕捉到了合成文化的增稠和石油对公众想象力的饱和。最后，阿尔伯塔省加拿大能源中心就动画电影《大脚怪家族》制造的争议表明，石油霸权正在松动。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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4.20

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