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two men in a black and white photo in the desert with one pointing out to the horizon and the other behind a 1950s motion film camera
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Archival photograph on the back cover of “Pipeline Cinema: The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq” (UC Press, 2025) by Mona Damluji

How oil companies shaped early cinema in Iran and Iraq

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UCSB Scholar Examines Musical Improvisation as a Model for Social Change

UCSB Art Museum Receives Getty, Museums for America Grants

UCSB Professor Studies Depictions of Asian American Women in Film and Theater

Students in UCSB Film and Media Studies Produce Videos for Harley-Davidson

UC Santa Barbara Announces Winner of $10,000 Competition for New Plays About Science and Technology

Two UCSB Scholars Receive Guggenheim Fellowships

UCSB Makes a Rare Collection of English Ballads Available Online

New Portraits of Holocaust Survivors Premieres at Film Festival

Winning Play in UCSB International Script Competition Featured in Staged Reading at REDCAT in Walt Disney Concert Hall Complex

Visiting Artists in Residence at UCSB in Conjunction with the Silk Road Project

UCSB Conference Explores the Work of Essayist, Philosopher Walter Benjamin

Project to Publish 'Definitive' Editions of the Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau Prospers at UC Santa Barbara
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