User:Brainy J/Mining in popular culture

The mining industry is a recurring theme in popular culture, occurring in film, television, music, literature, and other media.

• William B. Thesing, ed. (August 2000). Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art Literature, and Film. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1570033520.
• Duke, David C. (2002). Writers and Miners: Activism and Imagery in America. University Press of Kentucky.
• Hillstrom, Kevin; Hillstrom, Laurie Collier (September 2006). The Industrial Revolution in America: Automobiles, Mining and Petroleum, Textiles. ABC-CLIO. pp. 238–263.
• Green, Archie (1 March 1972). Only a Miner: Studies in Recorded Coal-mining Songs. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0252001819.
• Korson, George (1943). Coal Dust on the Fiddle: Songs and Stories of the Bituminous Industry. University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Littin-Arizona, Shelley (15 April 2013). "Futurity.org – Video games prep miners for danger". Futurity. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
• Lufkin, Brian (23 April 2012). "Asteroid Mining in Fiction, Past and Present". TechNewsDaily. Retrieved 12 May 2013.

• Booth, Stephan Elise. "The American Coal Mining Novel: A Century of Development" (PDF). Illinois Historical Journal. 81 (Summer 1988): 125–140.
• McKay, Ian. "Coal Miners and the "Longue Durée": Learning from Decazeville". Labour / Le Travail. 20 (Fall 1987). Canadian Committee on Labour History: 221–228.
• da Costa Nunes, Jadviga M. "Pennsylvania's Anthracite Mines and Miners: A Portrait of the Industry in America Art, c. 1860-1940". Society for Industrial Archeology. 28 (1).

Examples

Literature

• How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn (and sources in those articles).
• The Miner by Natsume Sōseki
• Works by Bret Harte
• Rocket Boys (aka October Sky) by Homer Hickam Jr.

Visual arts

• "Art of the Gold Rush at Oakland Museum of California". Retrieved 15 May 2013.

Film and television

• Coal (TV show)
• The movie Powaqqatsi opens with extensive footage of the Serra Pelada gold mine in Brazil, which was also photographed by Sebastião Salgado – photographs appear in his 1993 book Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age. The general theme here is exploitation of workers (obviously, you'd need a source that says that to avoid WP:OR).
• Salt of the Earth
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)

Music

• "Daddy's Down in the Mine", by Timbuk3
• "Sixteen Tons" by Merle Travis (covered by Tennessee Ernie Ford)

Phrases and idioms

• Data mining
• Gold digger

Gaming

• Diggers (video game)
• Minecraft

Possible sources of information

• "Archive: coal mining in Britain". BBC. (Mostly about actual mining, rather than cultural issues, but may contain some tidbits. Ask Dricherby if you need to know what's in a video/audio item that's only available in the UK.)