I was surprised with all the historical references in There Will Be Blood. So I wanted to explain how rich this film is in historical detail. Knowing about the Teapot Dome scandal, CC Julian, 3rd Great Awakening, and Weber allows you to better analyze it. Connecting it to contemporary events of its release in 2007, such as global warming and Iraq, shows the deeper meaning of the film. This is a form of critique called “new historicism," which shows how how that interpretation is rooted in the zeitgeist. It's a really interesting film
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Bibliography
Laton McCartney, The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country (New York: Random House, 2008). https://amzn.to/47DGBMw

Gordon Owen, The Two Alberts: Fountain and Fall (Las Cruces, N.Mex.: Yucca Tree Press, 1996). https://amzn.to/45vi5ez

Paul Sabin, Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005). https://amzn.to/2W16gtt

Jules Tygiel, The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). https://amzn.to/2ASH7Z0
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Wiki: There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American period drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on the 1927 novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair.[4] It stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview, a silver miner turned oilman on a ruthless quest for wealth during Southern California's oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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