@HeerJeet Derek Cianfance. Blue Valentine was the real deal, and Place Beyond the Pines promises even more (tho I haven't seen it yet)
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@karpmj Looks like I have to see Blue Valentine.
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@HeerJeet 9 to 5 (1980); Silkwood (1983). And if you're counting TV, there's Roseanne (late 80s/mid 90s). But yeah. -
@CoreyRobin Good examples. I see 9 to 5 as tail end of 1970s cycle of working class movies. Roseanne is real outlier.
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@HeerJeet Other noms: The Wrestler, Wendy & Lucy, Winter's Bone, Goodbye Solo. & what about 8 Mile? Hazy, but fond memories of factory sex -
@karpmj Good examples. I suppose difference is that these movies deal with disintegrating working class rather than one that is organizing.
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@HeerJeet But you're also right in that then, it was simply the backdrop to a lot of films, the fabric of the plot (e.g. Dog Day Afternoon). -
@CoreyRobin Exactly. Even on sit-coms: Taxi, for example, working class workplace was visible in way it isn't now. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet Later it became the ostentatious foreground, suggesting how far the topic had slipped from everyday consciousness. -
@CoreyRobin Right: there was a taken-for-grantedness about working class in 1970s that doesn't exist now. - Show replies
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