Pipeline Cinema : The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Damluji, Mona.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial films.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Petroleum industry and trade in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-520-42432-8

9780520424326

OCLC:

1552152132