Journal Issue
Michael Wilson’s screenplay Salt of the Earth gives this issue its shape: a New Mexico mining strike becomes a test of solidarity, with the women’s demand for equality at home strengthening the workers’ fight on the picket line. The surrounding articles keep the film’s production history in view. Paul Jarrico and Herbert J. Biberman describe how the project broke ground outside Hollywood; Rosaura Revueltas reflects on the journey; a crew member reports from the location; and Juan Chacon writes from the union side. Rather than mixing unrelated genres, the number works as a compact dossier on a film made under political pressure, pairing the screenplay with testimony from the people who brought it into being.
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- Common Cause, Common Right [Editorial, p. 2]
- Salt of the Earth — Michael Wilson [Screenplay, p. 3]
- Breaking Ground — Paul Jarrico and Herbert J. Biberman [Essay, p. 60]
- Reflections on a Journey — Rosaura Revueltas [Essay, p. 64]
- Notes on Contributors [Contributor notes, p. 66]
- On Location — A member of the crew [Essay, p. 67]
- Union Made — Juan Chacon [Essay, p. 70]
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Copyright 1953 by The California Quarterly, Inc.
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The issue bears a 1953 copyright notice or contains contributions first published in 1953; rights in individual works and the compilation have not been fully resolved.
*California Quarterly*, vol. 2, no. 4, Summer 1953. Text/Tech Journals, clean reading edition.