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The heart broken in half / produced and directed by Taggart Siegel and Dwight Conquergood ; written by Dwight Conquergood.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gangs--Illinois--Chicago.
- Gangs.
- Gangs--United States.
- Hispanic American gangs--Illinois--Chicago.
- Hispanic American gangs.
- Street life--Illinois--Chicago.
- Street life.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (57 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1992.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Based on the ethnographic fieldwork of Dwight Conquergood"--Credits.
- Originally released as VHS.
- American Psychiatric Association, 1993
- Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Film Festival, 1990
- Award, North Carolina International Film & Video Festival, 1991
- Council on Foundations, 1991
- OCLC:
- 776240822
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