01626nam a22002537a 4500 BJBSDDR 20260903120154.0 ta 260428s2026 cau||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780520424302 (paperback) 0520424328 (paperback) eng DLC eng PN 1993.5 D161p 2026 Damluji, Mona 48166 Pipeline cinema : the cultural infrastructure of oil extraction in Iran and Iraq / Mona Damluji. Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2026 xvii, 173 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm Prologue -- Introduction -- "Oil on the screen" : The origins of petroleum industry film use in Iran -- The cinematic pipeline : oil infrastructure and the prestige documentary in Iraq -- Oil's cultural workers : textures and tensions of the Iraq Petroleum Company film unit -- Audiences of oil : film exhibition on the pipeline -- Epilogue. 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" Industria cinematográfica 1505 lcc BK cmc 126938 126938 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2026-04-28 0 PN 1993.5 D161p 2026 00000199729 2026-04-28 12:11:00 1 2026-04-28 BK