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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 Students Collaborate With Prominent Artists in UCSB Summer Theater Lab

UCSB Artist-in-Residence to Present Preview of New Play, ‘Mexican Psychotic'

Busy UC Santa Barbara Playwright Honored with Alpert Award in the Arts

UCSB Selected as Home of UC Institute for Research in the Arts

Annenberg Foundation Donates $1 Million to UCSB to Support Center for Film, Television and New Media

UCSB Conference to Examine Christian Pilgrimages in Medieval History, Art, Literature, and Virtual Reality

Writer Rudolfo Anaya to Receive 2004 Luis Leal Award Saturday

UCSB Archive to Receive Papers, Music and Endowment from Late Mexican American Music Legend Don Tosti

UCSB Summer Theatre Lab Brings Distinguished Artists to Campus for Creative Collaboration with Students, Faculty, Each Other

UC Santa Barbara Receives $2 Million Gift for Public Film Theater in New Center for Film, Television and New Media

Art Historian Lauds the Work of Car Designers in New Book

Filmmaker/Activists David Rintels, Victoria Riskin to Discuss Difficulties of Making Films About Changing World Order
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