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Blue Collar (film): Companies, Plot & Cast

Blue Collar is a 1978 American crime drama film directed by Paul Schrader in his directorial debut. Written by Schrader and his brother Leonard, the film stars Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto. The film is both a critique of union practices and an examination of life in a working-class Rust Belt enclave.

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Blue Collar (film) topic overview

The analysis highlights Companies, Plot and Cast as prominent areas in the source structure around Blue Collar (film).

Related topics
67
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
72
Extracted relationships
18
Related term clusters
27
Bridge connections
72

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Plot · 27 topics
Overview · 14 topics
Cast · 10 topics
Reception · 10 topics
Production · 6 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Box office
$6.5 million
Budget
$1.7 million
Cinematography
Bobby Byrne
Country
United States
Directed by
Paul Schrader
Distributed by
Universal Pictures

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Overview

Plot

Cast

Production

Reception

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How Blue Collar (film) connects Entity context

The extracted context around Blue Collar (film) shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Blue Collar (film) → Harvey Keitel, Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto Another extracted example is Blue Collar (film) → Leonard Schrader, Paul Schrader. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Blue Collar (film)

Top relations

Starring · 3
Blue Collar (film) → Harvey Keitel, Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto
Written by · 2
Blue Collar (film) → Leonard Schrader, Paul Schrader
Box office · 1
Blue Collar (film) → $6.5 million
Budget · 1
Blue Collar (film) → $1.7 million
Cinematography · 1
Blue Collar (film) → Bobby Byrne
Country · 1
Blue Collar (film) → United States
Directed by · 1
Blue Collar (film) → Paul Schrader
Distributed by · 1
Blue Collar (film) → Universal Pictures
Edited by · 1
Blue Collar (film) → Tom Rolf
Language · 1
Blue Collar (film) → English

Important terminology

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Important terminology

film union schrader jerry keitel pryor zeke blue collar kotto also smokey one richard harvey yaphet detroit get work stars

Blue Collar (film) relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 18 structured relationships around Blue Collar (film). Examples in this analysis include Blue Collar (film) → Box office → $6.5 million and Blue Collar (film) → Budget → $1.7 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Blue Collar (film)Box office$6.5 million1.00infobox
Blue Collar (film)Budget$1.7 million1.00infobox
Blue Collar (film)CinematographyBobby Byrne1.00infobox
Blue Collar (film)CountryUnited States1.00infobox
Blue Collar (film)Directed byPaul Schrader1.00infobox
Blue Collar (film)Distributed byUniversal Pictures1.00infobox
Blue Collar (film)Edited byTom Rolf1.00infobox
Blue Collar (film)LanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Blue Collar (film)Music byJack Nitzsche1.00infobox
Blue Collar (film)Produced byDon Guest1.00infobox
Blue Collar (film)Production companyT.A.T. Communications Company1.00infobox
Blue Collar (film)Release dateFebruary 10, 1978 (1978-02-10) (United States)1.00infobox
Blue Collar (film)Running time114 minutes1.00infobox
Blue Collar (film)StarringRichard Pryor1.00infobox
Blue Collar (film)StarringHarvey Keitel1.00infobox
Blue Collar (film)StarringYaphet Kotto1.00infobox
Blue Collar (film)Written byPaul Schrader1.00infobox
Blue Collar (film)Written byLeonard Schrader1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Blue Collar (film) bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Collar, Paul and Directed. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Blue Collar (film)
    • Collar
    • Paul
    • Directed
    • Film
    • Schrader
    • Production
    • Michigan
    • Stars
    • Detroit
    • Written
    • Company
    • Crime
  • blue collar (film)
    • Collar
    • Paul
    • Directed
    • Film
    • Pryor
    • Schrader
    • Production
    • Michigan
    • Stars
    • Detroit
    • Written
    • Company
  • harvey keitel
    • Leonard
    • Kotto
    • Richard
    • Yaphet
    • Pryor
    • Written
    • Keitel
    • Schrader
    • Also
    • Production
    • Bartowski
    • Brown
  • leonard schrader
    • Harvey
    • Richard
    • Yaphet
    • Written
    • Kotto
    • Pryor
    • Keitel
    • Production
    • Also
    • Bartowski
    • Brown
    • Leonard
  • richard pryor
    • Harvey
    • Yaphet
    • Kotto
    • Keitel
    • Pryor
    • Richard
    • Written
    • Schrader
    • Production
    • Stars
    • Bartowski
    • Brown
  • yaphet kotto
    • Yaphet
    • Pryor
    • Leonard
    • Richard
    • Written
    • Stars
    • Schrader
    • Also
    • Production
    • Bartowski
    • Brown
    • Company
  • paul schrader
    • Harvey
    • Production
    • Richard
    • Keitel
    • Also
    • Kotto
    • Written
    • Pryor
    • Leonard
    • Schrader
    • Stars
    • Company
  • detroit
    • Michigan
    • Two
    • Bartowski
    • Brown
    • Time
    • Company
    • Including
    • States
    • United
    • Workers
    • Jerry
    • Film

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Blue Collar (film), one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Blue Collar (film) with Plot. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Blue Collar (film) — Plot · splits 45 ⟂ 28
Blue Collar (film) — Overview · splits 58 ⟂ 15
Blue Collar (film) — Cast · splits 62 ⟂ 11
Blue Collar (film) — Reception · splits 62 ⟂ 11
Blue Collar (film) — Production · splits 66 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

Blue Collar (film)

Nodes73
Edges72
Triples18
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027397
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Blue Collar (film) to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Companies, Plot & Cast, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Blue Collar (film) · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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