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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.
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.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 194
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
23 December 2025
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520424302
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Mona Damluji is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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
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