1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456929003321

Autore

Alves Maria Helena Moreira <1944->

Titolo

Living in the crossfire [[electronic resource] ] : Favela residents, drug dealers, and police violence in Rio de Janeiro / / Maria Helena Moreira Alves and Philip Evanson ; with the assistance of Cristina Pedroza de Faria (Kita Pedroza) and Jose Valentin Palacios Vilches

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pa., : Temple University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-299-83384-5

1-4399-0005-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

Voices of Latin American life

Altri autori (Persone)

EvansonPhilip

Disciplina

303.6/2086942098153

Soggetti

Drug traffic - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Slums - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Squatter settlements - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Violence - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part I: Rio de Janeiro : the marvelous city and its communities. The decline of poverty and the rise of violence -- Living in the Favelas in the twenty first century -- Communities under fire -- Voices of hope and renewal -- Voices of community leaders -- Voices of public security officials. Security for whom? -- Voices of police officers -- Voices of government officials.

Sommario/riassunto

For all of Brazil's efforts to reduce poverty-and its progress-the favelas in Rio de Janeiro still house one-third of the city's poor, and violence permeates every aspect of the city. As urban drug gangs and police wage war in the streets, favela residents who are especially vulnerable live in fear of being caught in the crossfire. Politicians, human rights activists, and security authorities have been working to minimize the social and economic problems at the root of this ""war.""Living in the Crossfire presents impassioned testimony from officials, residents, and othe



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464068403321

Autore

Grant Barry Keith <1947->

Titolo

Shadows of doubt [[electronic resource] ] : negotiations of masculinity in American genre films / / Barry Keith Grant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8143-3691-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

Contemporary approaches to film and television series

Disciplina

791.43/6521

Soggetti

Masculinity in motion pictures

Motion pictures - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231), filmography (p. 217-220), and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Pistols and stamens : gender and genre in D. W. Griffith's Broken blossoms -- Walking small : W. C. Fields, Groucho Marx, and the emasculation of the American comic tradition -- Cock and bull story : Howard Hawks's Red river, professionalism, and the Western -- The classic Hollywood musical, male desire, and the "problem" of rock n' roll -- Growing up absurd : shtick meets teenpic in the delicate delinquent -- "Cussers last stan'" : black masculinity in the cool world -- Of men and monoliths : science fiction, gender, and 2001 a space odyssey -- Taking back The night of the living dead : George Romero, feminism, and the horror film -- Rich and strange : economic performance anxiety and the yuppie horror film -- Man's favorite sport? the action films of Kathryn Bigelow.