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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| description | 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-year-old Sam ‘Smokey’ James (Yaphet Kotto) --- and one is white --- the thirty two year old Polish American Jerry Bartowski (Harvey Keitel). (Schrader and Schrader 1978) Due to the fictional American Union of Autoworkers’ (AAW) (representing the real life Union of Autoworkers (UAW)) indifference to their poor working conditions, the trio break into their local branches’ safe. |
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| spelling | oai:repository.londonmet.ac.uk:81442025-01-06T11:34:03Z https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/8144/ The working class in Schrader’s Blue Collar (1978) Wheeler, Mark 320 Political science 330 Economics 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-year-old Sam ‘Smokey’ James (Yaphet Kotto) --- and one is white --- the thirty two year old Polish American Jerry Bartowski (Harvey Keitel). (Schrader and Schrader 1978) Due to the fictional American Union of Autoworkers’ (AAW) (representing the real life Union of Autoworkers (UAW)) indifference to their poor working conditions, the trio break into their local branches’ safe. Lexington Books Michels, Steven J. 2025-01 Book Section PeerReviewed text en https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/8144/9/WheelerTHL1%281%29BC17.pdf Wheeler, Mark (2025) The working class in Schrader’s Blue Collar (1978). In: Scenes from the American working class: this hard land:. Politics, Literature, & Film . Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland (USA). ISBN 9781666938906 (Hardback), 9781666938913 (eBook) https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666938913/Scenes-from-the-American-Working-Class-This-Hard-Land |
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