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Pipeline Cinema explores the intertwined histories of documentary film and the oil industry in mid-twentieth century Iran and Iraq. Reading against the grain of oil company archives, Mona Damluji reveals how wells, pipelines, pumping stations, and refineries were sites of cinematic production and exhibition, at once normalizing and challenging neocolonial extraction. Shining a light on cultural workers and labor movements, this book offers a distinctly humanistic lens on an otherwise dehumanizing petroleum industry.
By:
Mona Damluji Imprint: University of California Press Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
ISBN:9780520424302 ISBN 10: 0520424301 Pages: 194 Publication Date:23 December 2025 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Contents Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction 1. ""Oil on the Screen"": The Origins of Petroleum Industry Film Use in Iran 2. The Cinematic Pipeline: Oil Infrastructure and the Prestige Documentary in Iraq 3. Oil's Cultural Workers: Textures and Tensions of the Iraq Petroleum Company Film Unit 4. Audiences of Oil: Film Exhibition on the Pipeline Epilogue Notes Index
Mona Damluji is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
