Farm worker futurism [electronic resource] :speculative technologies of resistance / Curtis Marez.
By: Marez, Curtis [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: BookSeries: Difference incorporated: ; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781452951645; 1452951640.Subject(s): Labor movement in motion pictures | Agricultural laborers -- Labor unions -- California -- History -- 20th century | Agricultural laborers -- Political activity -- California -- History -- 20th century | Agricultural industries -- California -- Automation | Agricultural laborers -- Effect of automation on -- California -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 331.7/63097301 Online resources: Full text available:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: farm workers in the machine -- 1. "To the disinherited belongs the future": farm worker futurism in the 1940s -- 2. From third cinema to national video: visual technologies and UFW world building -- 3. Farm worker futurisms in speculative culture: George Lucas and Ester Hernandez -- Afterword: farm worker futurism now.
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