Pipeline Cinema: The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq
Author:   Mona Damluji
Publisher:   University of California Press
ISBN:  

9780520424296


Pages:   194
Publication Date:   23 December 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Pipeline Cinema: The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq


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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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.

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Author:   Mona Damluji
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
ISBN:  

9780520424296


ISBN 10:   0520424298
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   23 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.

Table of Contents

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  

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Mona Damluji is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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