The Resource The killing floor
The killing floor
Resource Information
The item The killing floor represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The killing floor represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- Praised by The Village Voice as the most "clear-eyed account of union organizing on film," The Killing Floor tells the little-known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. The screenplay by Obie Award-winner Leslie Lee, based on an original story by producer Elsa Rassbach, traces the racial and class conflicts seething in the city's giant slaughterhouses, and the brutal efforts of management to divide the workforce along ethnic lines, which eventually boiled over in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. The first feature film by director Bill Duke, The Killing Floor premiered on PBS' American Playhouse series in 1984 to rave reviews. In 1985, the film was invited to Cannes and won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award. It has been showcased at Lincoln Center and festivals around the world
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 118 min.))
- Label
- The killing floor
- Title
- The killing floor
- Subject
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- Racism against Black people -- Illinois | Chicago -- Drama
- Riots -- Illinois | Chicago -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Working class -- Illinois | Chicago -- History -- 20th century
- African American labor union members -- Drama
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 1875-
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations | History -- Drama
- Packing-house workers -- Labor unions | Organizing -- Illinois | Chicago
- Packing-houses -- Illinois | Chicago -- Drama
- Race discrimination -- Illinois | Chicago -- Drama
- Racism -- Illinois | Chicago -- Drama
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Praised by The Village Voice as the most "clear-eyed account of union organizing on film," The Killing Floor tells the little-known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. The screenplay by Obie Award-winner Leslie Lee, based on an original story by producer Elsa Rassbach, traces the racial and class conflicts seething in the city's giant slaughterhouses, and the brutal efforts of management to divide the workforce along ethnic lines, which eventually boiled over in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. The first feature film by director Bill Duke, The Killing Floor premiered on PBS' American Playhouse series in 1984 to rave reviews. In 1985, the film was invited to Cannes and won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award. It has been showcased at Lincoln Center and festivals around the world
- Cataloging source
- Midwest
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/relation/composerexpression
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- Credits note
- Directed by Bill Duke
- Intended audience
- Not rated
- PerformerNote
- Damien Leake, Alfre Woodward, Clarence Felder, Moses Gunn
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1930-2014
- 1943-
- 1929-1993
- 1918-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Rassbach, Elsa
- Milner, Ron
- Lee, Leslie
- Manasse, George
- Duke, Bill
- Leake, Damien
- Woodward, Alfre
- Felder, Clarence
- Gunn, Moses
- Birch, William
- Swados, Elizabeth
- hoopla digital
- Runtime
- 118
- Series statement
- Film Movement classics
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Packing-house workers
- African American labor union members
- Racism
- Race discrimination
- Working class
- Packing-houses
- Riots
- Racism against Black people
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Technique
- live action
- Label
- The killing floor
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
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- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
-
- other
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 118 min.))
- Form of item
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Medium for sound
- other
- Other physical details
- sd., col.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 13899506
- Publisher number
- MWT13899506
- Sound
- sound
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
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- other
- remote
- System control number
- (MWT)MWT13899506
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Video recording format
- other
- Label
- The killing floor
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- two-dimensional moving image
- Content type code
-
- tdi
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
-
- other
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 118 min.))
- Form of item
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Medium for sound
- other
- Other physical details
- sd., col.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 13899506
- Publisher number
- MWT13899506
- Sound
- sound
- Sound on medium or separate
- sound on medium
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- System control number
- (MWT)MWT13899506
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Video recording format
- other
Subject
- Racism against Black people -- Illinois | Chicago -- Drama
- Riots -- Illinois | Chicago -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Working class -- Illinois | Chicago -- History -- 20th century
- African American labor union members -- Drama
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 1875-
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations | History -- Drama
- Packing-house workers -- Labor unions | Organizing -- Illinois | Chicago
- Packing-houses -- Illinois | Chicago -- Drama
- Race discrimination -- Illinois | Chicago -- Drama
- Racism -- Illinois | Chicago -- Drama
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