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Title Hillside Beauties / a film by Julia Kurc
Published Manchester : Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester, [2007]

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Description 1 online resource (30 min.)
Summary In an environment of violence, marginalization and racial discrimination, such asoen finds in the favela shanty-towns of Rio de Janeiro, many women still manage to create a time and a space to construct their personal identities and a sense of their own beauty. Marcella, Thuany and Nagila are three young girls who deal with the difficulties of their social reality in a distinctively beautiful way
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed November 04, 2016)
In Portuguese
Subject Identity (Psychology)
Teenage girls -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Social conditions
Self-esteem in adolescence.
Social integration -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
Slums -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
Identity (Psychology)
Self-esteem in adolescence.
Slums.
Social integration.
Teenage girls -- Social conditions.
Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Kurc, Julia, director
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, production company.