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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Main Author: Wheeler, Mark
Other Authors: Michels, Steven J.
Format: Book Section
Language:English
Published: Lexington Books 2023
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Online Access:https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/8144/9/WheelerTHL1%281%29BC17.pdf