DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Truth [Vérité]" by Émile Zola. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

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In dark rooms and empty houses, amongst the damaged lives and scattered pieces of human heart, there lies something inevitable and indescribable. Something invisible that grips the mind and tears it apart. How much courage does it take to find out what lies between the margins? Take the journey to find out about, la verite!

With her brand new degree in hand, and jobs offer form Ma Bell; Monica sets out to conquer the world. On her own for the first time at eighteen, Monica moves to the big city. Full of hopes and ambitions, she is ready and anxious to get started. Her knowledge of the world takes second place to her bright auburn hair and emerald eyes, but she is eager to learn. Then she meets Justin Lambert and everything is turned upside down. He totally capitates her body and spirit. Their love affair is at times gentle; at times intense and turbulent. Their life together, full of ups and sons continues for Twelve years. A life filled with drinking, drugs, and wild times. Just when she thinks they are all grown up and that the endless parties and problems are working themselves out, Monica's life starts spiraling out of control. Although she can take the cheating, when Justin's betrays border on incest, she has no choice but to expose him for what he really is. Monica learns quickly that blindly putting her life, not to mention her heart into the hands of the wrong person is a dangerous thing. Will her naivety and country girl mentality be her downfall or will these same attributes save her? Starting out, she never dreamed that she would finds herself alone. Monica finally learns form her mistakes. She has to act quickly to try to put things right and straighten out her live before she reaches the point of no return. This book is written in the hope that you too will learn- without having to make those same mistakes.

Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a 'planet of slums.' But how has this hard and unyielding way of life been depicted on screen? How have filmmakers engaged historically and across the globe with the social conditions of what is often perceived as the world's most miserable habitats?Combining approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies, Igor Krstic outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios poulares or chawls of our 'planet of slums', exploring the way accelerated urbanisation has intersected with an increasingly interconnected global film culture. From Jacob Riis' How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), the volume provides a number of close readings of films from different historical periods and regions to outline how contemporary film and media practices relate to their past predeccesors, demonstrating the way various filmmakers, both north and south of the equator, have repeatedly grappled with, rejected or continuously modified documentary and realist modes to convey life in our 'planet of slums'.

Keith Beattie's study offers a clear and comprehensive analysis of documentary film and television by adopting a 'documentary studies' approach in which non-fictional work is situated within historical, economic and disciplinary contexts.