| Description |
1 online resource (57 min.) |
| Series |
Online access: Kanopy Kanopy PDA United Kingdom
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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 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 |
| Notes |
Originally released as VHS |
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"Based on the ethnographic fieldwork of Dwight Conquergood"--Credits |
| Credits |
Narrated by Dwight Conquergood ; director of photography, Rana Segal ; edited by Taggart Siegel and Dwight Conquergood |
| Notes |
This edition in English |
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American Psychiatric Association, 1993 |
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Award, North Carolina International Film & Video Festival, 1991 |
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Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Film Festival, 1990 |
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Council on Foundations, 1991 |
| Subject |
Gangs -- Illinois -- Chicago
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Hispanic American gangs -- Illinois -- Chicago
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Street life -- Illinois -- Chicago
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Gangs -- United States.
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Gangs
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Hispanic American gangs
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Race relations
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Street life
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| SUBJECT |
Chicago (Ill.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations
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| Subject |
Illinois -- Chicago
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
documentary film.
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Documentary films
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Ethnographic films
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Feature films
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Nonfiction films
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Ethnographic films.
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Feature films.
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Films ethnographiques.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Siegel, Taggart, director, producer.
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Conquergood, Lorne Dwight, 1949-2004, director, producer, screenwriter, narrator.
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Filmakers Library, inc.
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