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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Monti moments
    sub title: men's memories in the heart of Rome
  name:
    name part: Herzfeld, Michael
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: producer.
  name:
    name part: EnMasseFilms (Firm)
    role:
      role term: production company.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Documentaires.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: ita
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (39 min.)
  abstract: This rich and revelatory documentary provides a uniquely intimate portrait of social change in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in Rome. Told through thoroughly engaging informal conversations with local inhabitants, the film speaks to important issues at the heart of contemporary social science - issues of history, memory, and voice - as well as to the effects of rapid socioeconomic change in urban neighborhoods. Filmmaker and anthropologist Michael Herzfeld displays an enviable and authentic rapport with his often colorful subjects and elicits from them eloquent, bittersweet, and charming commentary about the culture of Rome and how it has dramatically changed in recent years. The film admirably captures the poignant memories and quiet desperation of men who today face increasing threats to their lives as artisans and shopkeepers and as residents of a once mostly working-class neighborhood amid some of Rome's most famous monuments. The men's standing as economic providers and true representatives of the local culture is now threatened by a massive epidemic of evictions and by astronomical cost increases. They nevertheless recall with wry humor the poverty, scandals, and glories of a past that for them is still very much alive and that animates the sun-warmed ocher walls and diamond-shaped cobblestones of their quarter. Constant incursions of raucous traffic, the callous disregard of the rich and powerful, and the relentless invasion of market forces (with their attendant retinue of conniving loan-sharks) have not blunted their appreciative wit or their devotion to a richly variegated history - a history that emerges visibly in the often florid manifestations of corruption, illegality, and rebellion. Taxi-drivers debate the comparative merits of old editions of historical books; a butcher recalls the anti-fascist commitments of a family that has lived in the same house since 1704; a newsagent muses over an old photograph that connects his family's business to a t…
  target audience: adult
  note: filmed and produced by Michael Herzfeld ; an En Masse Films Associated production.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed September 16, 2016).
  note: In Italian with English subtitles.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-it---
  subject:
    topic: Gentrification
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Rome
  subject:
    geographic: Rome (Italy)
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme)
    geographic: Italie
    geographic: Rome
  subject:
    topic: Gentrification
  subject:
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    geographic: Italy
    geographic: Rome
  classification: HT170 .H479 2007
  classification: 307.760945
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)137339659
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 160916
    record change date: 20241201231733.6
    record identifier: in00005567257
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng