The working class in Schrader’s Blue Collar (1978)
This chapter examines Paul Schrader’s directorial debut Blue Collar (1978) with reference to its entrapment of three Detroit autoworkers. Within this rust-belt drama, two of the men are black --- the thirty year-old Ezekiel ‘Zeke’ Brown (Richard Pryor) and the two-time ‘loser’ ex-convict thirty-five...
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| Language: | English |
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Lexington Books
2025
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| Online Access: | https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/8144/9/WheelerTHL1%281%29BC17.pdf |