A compelling contribution to film theory and the energy humanities, Pipeline Noir offers an interpretation of Chinatown through the lens of petromodernity. Michael Rubenstein reimagines the film as an allegory for the 1970s energy crisis, revealing how its focus on water infrastructure in early-twentieth-century California serves as a surrogate for the oil pipelines shaping the postwar global order.
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Pipeline Noir: Seeing Oil through “Chinatown” by Michael Rubenstein is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
