The heart broken in half /

Challenging stereotypes, this documentary gives voice to the street youths and reveals their underground culture. Here is an intricate web of symbols and passions, territory and brotherhood, honor and, all too often, death. Images of street bravado are counterpointed with scenes inside laundromats w...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Filmakers Library, inc
Other Authors:	Conquergood, Lorne Dwight, 1949-2004 (Director, Narrator, Producer), Siegel, Taggart (Director, Producer)
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Language Notes:	This edition in English.
Published:	New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1992.
Subjects:	Gangs > Illinois > Chicago. Gangs > United States. Hispanic American gangs > Illinois > Chicago. Street life > Illinois > Chicago. Chicago (Ill.) > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects. Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations. Internet videos. Documentary films. Nonfiction films.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

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Summary:	Challenging stereotypes, this documentary gives voice to the street youths and reveals their underground culture. Here is an intricate web of symbols and passions, territory and brotherhood, honor and, all too often, death. Images of street bravado are counterpointed with scenes inside laundromats where gang members are folding clothes and playing with babies. The violent death and funeral of a Guatemalan street youth stir up the deepest feelings and most haunting questions about both the vulnerability and the heroic ethic of gang life.
Item Description:	"Based on the ethnographic fieldwork of Dwight Conquergood"--Credits. Originally released as VHS. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (57 min.). Previously released as DVD.
Awards:	American Psychiatric Association, 1993 Award, North Carolina International Film and Video Festival, 1991 Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Film Festival, 1990 Council on Foundations, 1991