FREE SALT OF THE EARTH 1ST EDITION PDF Michael Wilson | 9780912670454 | | | | | The Salt of the Earth () - IMDb Bibermanand produced by Paul Jarrico. All had been blacklisted by the Hollywood establishment due to their alleged involvement in communist politics. The drama film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political point of view. Its plot centers on a long and difficult strikebased on the strike against the Empire Zinc Company in Grant County, New Mexico. In the film, the company is identified as "Delaware Zinc", and the setting is "Zinctown, New Mexico". The film shows how the miners, the company, and the police react during the strike. In neorealist style, the producers and director used actual miners and their families as actors in the film. The majority of the miners are Mexican-Americans and want decent Salt of the Earth 1st edition conditions equal to those of whiteor " Anglo " miners. The unionized workers go on strikebut the company refuses to negotiate and the impasse continues for months. Esperanza gives birth and, simultaneously, Ramon is beaten by police and jailed on bogus assault charges following an altercation with a union worker who betrayed his fellows. When Ramon is released, Esperanza tells him that he's no good to her in jail. He counters that if the strike succeeds they will not only get better conditions right now but also win hope for their children's futures. The company presents a Taft-Hartley Act injunction to the union, meaning any miners who picket will be arrested. Taking advantage of a loophole, the wives picket in their husbands' places. Some men dislike this, seeing it as improper Salt of the Earth 1st edition dangerous. Esperanza is forbidden to picket by Ramon at first, but she eventually joins the line while carrying her baby. The sheriff, by company orders, arrests the leading women of the Salt of the Earth 1st edition. Esperanza is among those taken to jail. When she returns home, Ramon tells her the strike is hopeless, as the company will easily outlast the miners. She insists that the union is stronger than ever and asks Ramon why he can't accept her as an equal in their marriage. Both angry, they sleep separately that night. The next day the company evicts the Quintero family from their house. The union men and women arrive to protest the eviction. Ramon tells Esperanza that they can all fight together. The mass of workers and their families proves successful in saving the Quinteros' home. The company admits defeat and plans to negotiate. Esperanza believes that the community has won something no company can ever take away and it will be inherited by her children. The film was called 'subversive' and blacklisted because the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers sponsored it and many blacklisted Hollywood professionals helped produce it. The union had been expelled from the CIO inover the alleged domination of its leadership by communists. The Hollywood Ten were cited and convicted for contempt of Congress and jailed. Biberman was imprisoned in the Federal Correctional Institution at Texarkana for six months. After his release he directed this film. The producers cast only five professional actors. In the film he plays the protagonistwho has trouble dealing with women as equals. The film was denounced by the United States House of Representatives for its communist sympathies, and the FBI investigated the film's financing. The American Legion called for a nationwide boycott of the film. After Salt of the Earth 1st edition opening night in New York City, the film languished for 10 years because all but 12 theaters in the country refused to screen it. By one journalist's account: "During the course of production in New Mexico inthe trade press denounced it as a subversive plot, anti-Communist vigilantes fired rifle shots at the set, the film's leading lady Rosaura Revueltas was deported to Mexico, and from time to time a small airplane buzzed noisily overhead The film, edited in secret, was stored for safekeeping in an anonymous wooden shack in Los Angeles. The Hollywood establishment did not embrace the film at the time of its release. Pauline Kaelwho reviewed the film for Sight and Sound inpanned it as a simplistic left-wing "morality play" and said it was "as clear a piece of Communist propaganda as we have had in many years. Bosley Crowtherfilm critic for The New York Timesreviewed the picture favorably, both for its screenplay and direction, writing: "In the light of this agitated history, it is somewhat surprising to find that Salt of the Earth is, in substance, simply a strong pro-labor film with a particularly sympathetic interest in the Mexican-Americans with whom it deals But the real dramatic crux of the picture is the Salt of the Earth 1st edition and bitter conflict within the membership of the union. It is the issue of whether the women shall have equality of expression and of strike participation with the men. And it is along this line of contention that Michael Wilson's tautly muscled script develops considerable personal drama, raw emotion and power. The film found an audience in both Western and Eastern Europe in the few years after its American release. The film found a new life in the s and gradually reached larger audiences through union halls, women's associations, and film schools. The 50th anniversary of the film saw a number of commemorative conferences held across the United States. AroundMassachusetts Institute of Technology linguistics professor and political commentator Noam Chomsky praised the film because of the Salt of the Earth 1st edition people were portrayed doing the real work of unions. According to Chomsky: "[T]he real work is being done by people who are Salt of the Earth 1st edition known, that's always been true in every popular movement in history I don't know how you get that across in a film. Actually, come to think of it, there are some films that have done it. I mean, I don't see a lot of visual stuff, so I'm not the best commentator, but I thought Salt of the Earth really did it. It was a long time ago, but at the time I thought that it was one of the really great movies—and of course it was killed, I think it was almost never shown. The pro-labor institution not a college per se holds various lectures and forums related to unionism and economic justice. The film Salt of the Earth 1st edition screened on a frequent basis. Because the film's copyright was not renewed in[27] the film is now in the public domain. The film has been adapted into a two-act opera called Esperanza Hope. The labor movement in Wisconsin Salt of the Earth 1st edition University of Wisconsin—Madison opera professor Karlos Moser commissioned the production. The music was written by David Bishop and the libretto by Carlos Morton. The opera premiered in Madison, Wisconsinon August 25,to positive reviews. A documentary titled A Crime to Fit the Punishmentabout the making of the film, was released in and was directed by Barbara Moss and Stephen Mack. A drama filmbased on the making of the film, was chronicled in One of the Hollywood Ten From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Theatrical release Salt of the Earth 1st edition. Release date. 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