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The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott
Film Information
| Exhibition Title | The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott |
|---|---|
| Director | Luke Fowler |
| Country |  |
| Year | 2012 |
| Format | DCP |
| Colour | Color |
| Duration | 61' |
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In 1963, socialist writer, historian, and educator Edward Palmer Thompson published “The Making of the English Working Class”, a decisive work that would end with over two centuries of silence and concealment regarding the history and identity of the British working class. Thompson’s legacy as a thinker and intense experience as an educator for the Workers’ Education Association (WEA) –teaching Literature and History in open classes for those who had always been denied access to university– set up the basis on which Luke Fowler makes a tribute that is filled with conviction and rigor. On one side, current footage (shot by filmmaker Peter Hutton) featuring the West Riding in Yorkshire, where the historian carried on his work for decades. And, as a bridge between then and now, Thompson’s written reports of his experience as a teacher. Disarmingly lucid reflections, in which he insists on education as the only means for the working class to achieve social emancipation and elude the “enormous condescension of posterity”. FG
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