
American Class Struggle on the Big Screen
Barbara Kopple won Oscars for her gripping documentaries, like Harlan County, USA, on the struggles of the labor movement. She sat down with Jacobin to discuss that and her more recent work, as well.
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Ed Rampell is an LA-based film historian/critic and the author of Progressive Hollywood: A People’s Film History of the United States. His novel about the native Hawaiian sovereignty movement for indigenous rights, The Disinherited: Blood Blalahs, will be published this spring.
Barbara Kopple won Oscars for her gripping documentaries, like Harlan County, USA, on the struggles of the labor movement. She sat down with Jacobin to discuss that and her more recent work, as well.
A day before she quoted Marx at the Oscars, Jacobin briefly chatted with American Factory co-director Julia Reichert about her democratic socialism and long history on the Left.