The Jungle AnalysisEssay title: The Jungle AnalysisIn the early 20th century unbridled capitalism diminished the streets, towns, and cities of the growing United States of America. Social and political institutions were being changed directly because of it, until two certain movements sparked a light of hope unto the deteriorated factory-laden lands: socialism and progressivism. Both were portrayed as solutions to the evils of capitalism. And through the works of artists and writers such as Lewis Hine, Ida M. Tarbell, Frank Norris, and Gustavus Myers the excesses and evils were exposed. One writer in particular, Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle, sparked an outcry with his expose of the meatpacking industry and set reform into motion. Although Sinclair was specifically promoting socialism in The Jungle, it is recognized that the true spirit of his work lay in his passion for progressivism in the early 20th century.
Hollywood: The Jungle by Richard Luskin, D.C. by D.C. Books, 1990
Written as a documentary about the origins of exploitation, a silent film which was screened at the 1984 International Film Festival under the title The Jungle by Richard Luskin. The films began a chain of movements through the mid-to-late 2000s that resulted in films like The Jungle, Jungle Fever, and The Jungle Warrior. The films also began the process of taking away land that, as far back as 1933, had been owned by people who didn’t support the war effort against Hitler, and which, when left to stand in the open, were treated as property for the time being.
Hollywood: The Jungle by Richard Luskin, D.C. by D.C. Books, 1990
Hollywood is at an end. The world of film has been replaced by digital, but it’s a very different story. We are not watching movies on the same medium, but we are watching movies of our own lives; the worlds we are seeing. We’re living in one world because we have a computer, and because of it, we are free to see our history and the history of our culture wherever and by any means we wish it. To many of us the idea of moving to another world seems like a distant memory now, even to those who saw the World Trade Center. Today it takes our attention away from the films of our everyday life. We have no choice either in our ability to live or where we come from today. But here’s where the world turns for us when we turn to our next film, and with it the story of the human condition and how we feel about history, culture, and the world. The film explores the ways in which we try to take back the land that we took away from them, and the ways how we react to them. In the process we see new cultures, people, and places that are changing and that have had historical and psychological echoes. And as such, we become less or less enthralled by the familiar and our new life comes back, as if all are in the same place, not separated by the old world.
Hollywood: The Jungle by Richard Luskin, D.C. by D.C. Books, 1990
The movies were filmed by American directors using technology that was much faster than the process of producing them (at least compared to the film itself, where CGI was still being introduced in 1977). Like the real-life movies of the day, they were filmed with a video camera, but as films like The Jungle Warrior, The Jungle Show, and the The Jungle Show Machine were released earlier in their careers, the speed with which they were actually filmed had a tremendous influence on the way our society is portrayed. The Jungle Warrior gave us a powerful glimpse into the past and how it’s often forgotten, but when it does finally come out there are still an untold number of questions about both the past and how people who had been deprived of their land came to live as a result. At its most simplistic, this isn’t about changing things in certain countries, but actually exposing ourselves to the possibilities of living the land that we’re born in. That’s the story of the film. The film is not about changing things outside the United States. The film is about what an unbridled capitalist system is doing in every aspect of our economy and how it’s working for many people. We’re living in an unbridled society and are just as much the victims of it as we are the ones we were born
Hollywood: The Jungle by Richard Luskin, D.C. by D.C. Books, 1990
Written as a documentary about the origins of exploitation, a silent film which was screened at the 1984 International Film Festival under the title The Jungle by Richard Luskin. The films began a chain of movements through the mid-to-late 2000s that resulted in films like The Jungle, Jungle Fever, and The Jungle Warrior. The films also began the process of taking away land that, as far back as 1933, had been owned by people who didn’t support the war effort against Hitler, and which, when left to stand in the open, were treated as property for the time being.
Hollywood: The Jungle by Richard Luskin, D.C. by D.C. Books, 1990
Hollywood is at an end. The world of film has been replaced by digital, but it’s a very different story. We are not watching movies on the same medium, but we are watching movies of our own lives; the worlds we are seeing. We’re living in one world because we have a computer, and because of it, we are free to see our history and the history of our culture wherever and by any means we wish it. To many of us the idea of moving to another world seems like a distant memory now, even to those who saw the World Trade Center. Today it takes our attention away from the films of our everyday life. We have no choice either in our ability to live or where we come from today. But here’s where the world turns for us when we turn to our next film, and with it the story of the human condition and how we feel about history, culture, and the world. The film explores the ways in which we try to take back the land that we took away from them, and the ways how we react to them. In the process we see new cultures, people, and places that are changing and that have had historical and psychological echoes. And as such, we become less or less enthralled by the familiar and our new life comes back, as if all are in the same place, not separated by the old world.
Hollywood: The Jungle by Richard Luskin, D.C. by D.C. Books, 1990
The movies were filmed by American directors using technology that was much faster than the process of producing them (at least compared to the film itself, where CGI was still being introduced in 1977). Like the real-life movies of the day, they were filmed with a video camera, but as films like The Jungle Warrior, The Jungle Show, and the The Jungle Show Machine were released earlier in their careers, the speed with which they were actually filmed had a tremendous influence on the way our society is portrayed. The Jungle Warrior gave us a powerful glimpse into the past and how it’s often forgotten, but when it does finally come out there are still an untold number of questions about both the past and how people who had been deprived of their land came to live as a result. At its most simplistic, this isn’t about changing things in certain countries, but actually exposing ourselves to the possibilities of living the land that we’re born in. That’s the story of the film. The film is not about changing things outside the United States. The film is about what an unbridled capitalist system is doing in every aspect of our economy and how it’s working for many people. We’re living in an unbridled society and are just as much the victims of it as we are the ones we were born
Socialist ideas and politics sparked his interest early in Sinclair’s career. Sinclair discovered that the workers could take some control, and not the rich minority, the influence of which discovery is evident in his writing. Socialism was mostly presented, and promoted, symbolically and thematically throughout the work of The Jungle. Capitalism is portrayed as a grim, demeaning way of providing benefits for the few while destroying the lives of the majority. However, with the introduction of socialism comes a bright solution to the evil depths of the past. Sinclair’s chiaroscuro technique of depicting capitalism in bleak blacks of industry and socialism in pure whites of the people is integrated throughout the novel. The promotion of socialist ideas is infinite: Mike Scully’s rigged election fails when a socialist candidate refuses to be bought off; Jurgis attends a socialist party meeting, soon eager to learn more; Nicholas Schliemann acts as Sinclair when making a speech promoting socialism. Suddenly, radical thoughts are set into action with socialist promotion.
Along with promoting socialist ideals in The Jungle, Upton Sinclair proved his true spirit of passion lay in progressivism (it being a somewhat more reformist attitude to the premier radical thought).