| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Movie Review

The Jungle. Prod. by James Barrat. Discovery Channel, 2000. 51 mins. (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Box 2053, Princeton, NJ 08543-2053; 1-800-257-5126; <custerv@films.com>; <http://www.films.com> [Sept. 23, 2002])

Jack London proclaimed that Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle (1906), an anatomy of American immigrant working-class life set partly in Chicago's wretched and unsanitary packinghouses and their environs, might prove to be the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery. That it did not, according to Sinclair's own often-quoted analysis, stemmed from his inaccurate aim: his literary bombshell struck the public, not in the heart, but "in the stomach." A novel that was intended to dramatize the crises of the modernizing industrial workplace and community and to suggest a radical solution was overwhelmed by its own graphic imagery and came to be seen principally as a catalyst for federal meat inspection legislation. The documentary film The Jungle, which interweaves dramatizations of scenes from the novel, historical commentary illustrated with period photographs and film clips, and modern examples of meat-related scandal and changing regulatory policy, both comments on and extends this interpretive tradition. . . .

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