Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff - Softcover

Zaniello, Tom

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9780875463537: Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0875463533 ISBN 13: 9780875463537
Publisher: ILR Press, 1996

Synopsis

Explores the history of the portrayal of the working class in motion pictures

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About the Author

Tom Zaniello is Professor of English at Northern Kentucky University and Visiting Professor in the College Degree Program of the George Meany Center for Labor Studies.

Reviews

In his engaging and opinionated new book . . . Zaniello examines 150 movies that focus on labor or labor-related issues. . . . What holds the project together is Zaniello's sense of fun and wit. A better writer than most major film critics, he begins each entry with a zippy one-liner meant to sum up the film.

The first comprehensive guide to films about labor. . . succeeds in being a labor-history primer for cinephiles as well as an obscure-film resource for teachers and revolutionaries. Zaniello's capsule analyses are both scholarly and chatty, providing sources for further reading . . . on every single film. . . . A useful and far-reaching guide with abundant information.

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The following is taken from the author's introduction:

Like the labor movement itself, this film guide includes both the unionized and the nonunionized, the organized and the unorganized. Viewers looking for a film about working people, labor activism or history, and related economic and sociological issues should find this guide helpful. For students and teachers of labor history and trade unionism, this is currently the only comprehensively annotated guide with critical commentary and sources for further reading and research, all available in one volume.

Film students and teachers will discover, once such classics as "On the Waterfront" and "Harlan County, USA" are duly noted, a much wider range of films about labor than most studies have recognized.

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Publisher
ILR Press
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0875463533
ISBN 13 
9780875463537
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304
Rating
  • 3.87 out of 5 stars
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