Jason Resnikoff is assistant professor of contemporary history at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands. His work has appeared in Labor, Paris Review Daily, International Labor and Working-Class History, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. His book, Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work, came out earlier this year.

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How Do You Know What To Shoot?: On William Wyler and John Sturges’s “Thunderbolt”

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Jason Resnikoff is assistant professor of contemporary history at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands. His work has appeared in Labor, Paris Review Daily, International Labor and Working-Class History, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. His book, Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work, came out earlier this year.

Jason Resnikoff

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How Do You Know What To Shoot?: On William Wyler and John Sturges’s “Thunderbolt”