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“Chinatown” at 50, or Seeing Oil Through Cinema
Michael Rubenstein writes on the 50th anniversary of “Chinatown” and the beginning of the end of petromodernity.
Michael Rubenstein
Michael Rubenstein is an associate professor of English at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010) and co-author, with Justin Neuman, of Modernism and Its Environments (Bloomsbury, 2020). His forthcoming book, Chinatown at 50 or, Seeing Oil Through Cinema, will be published with the University of Minnesota Press in early 2025.