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 to often, death. Images of street bravado are counterpointed with scenes inside laundromats wh...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
| Series: | Online access: Kanopy Kanopy PDA United Kingdom.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| 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 to 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. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as VHS. "Based on the ethnographic fieldwork of Dwight Conquergood"--Credits. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (57 min.) |
| Playing Time: | 00:56:41 |
| Awards: | American Psychiatric Association, 1993 Award, North Carolina International Film & Video Festival, 1991 Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Film Festival, 1990 Council on Foundations, 1991 |
| Production Credits: | Narrated by Dwight Conquergood ; director of photography, Rana Segal ; edited by Taggart Siegel and Dwight Conquergood. |