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Media mapping and oil extraction: A Louisiana story

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dc.creatorWalker, Janet
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-04T12:41:46Z
dc.date.available2019-02-04T12:41:46Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractWritten from the perspective of spatial media and ecomedia studies and influenced by human geography, critical cartography, and critical environmental justice, this article nominates the situated film as such, identifies its kinship with other geolocational media (from historical maps to aerial scans), and demonstrates how these media together co-constitute the environments they may seem only to sense, scan, photograph, map, mark, snake through, or hover over. Taking mapping as generative, the article experiments with fieldwork practice and a cartographic analytic to deepen our understanding of the ‘production of space’ as social, positional, material, and mediated. Objects of analysis include: written and photographic evidence of the production locations of LOUISIANA STORY (Robert Flaherty, 1948) and BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (Benh Zeitlin, 2012), historical maps for oil and gas prospecting in the same area, and satellite and kite and balloon mapping in the aftermath of the BP oil spill of 2010. Benefiting from the knowledge of local interlocutors, the article particularises the entanglement of film and media with oil infrastructures on the Louisiana Gulf Coast of the United States, the mutuality of their ardent forces, the losses these formations have induced, and the need for treading lightly in this exquisite landscape.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/3448
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/media-mapping-and-oil-extraction-a-louisiana-story/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4217
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectdocumentaryen
dc.subjectenvironmenten
dc.subjectgeolocationen
dc.subjectLouisianaen
dc.subjectmappingen
dc.subjectoilen
dc.subjectDokumentationde
dc.subjectUmweltde
dc.subjectOrtsbestimmungde
dc.subjectKartografiede
dc.subjectÖlde
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personRobert Joseph Flaherty
dc.titleMedia mapping and oil extraction: A Louisiana storyen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationWalker, Janet (2018): Media mapping and oil extraction: A Louisiana story. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 7 (2), 229–251. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3448.
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local.coverpage2020-11-22T11:03:57
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://necsus-ejms.org/media-mapping-and-oil-extraction-a-louisiana-story/
local.source.epage251
local.source.issue2
local.source.spage229
local.source.volume7
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118683810
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q263148

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