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From Tinseltown to Bordertown: Los Angeles on Film.

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Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. The Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture. 5, International Association of Educating Cities, 2014, pp. “Editorial.” Monograph City, Social Inclusion and Education, edited by Xavier Bonal, vol. “Disney’s Metaphorical Exploration of Racism and Stereotypes: A Review of Zootopia.” Comparative Education Review, vol. Aunt Lute Books, 1999.īEAUDINE, Gregory, Oyemolade Osibodu, and Aliya Beavers. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life. The film brings an inclusive message breaking with borders inside the global city and portraying moments of openness between the protagonists, a bunny and a fox.ĪLLEN, John, Doreen Massey, and Michael Pryke. Animals from every environment, size and form cohabit together in the city, but physical and metaphorical borders are erected between them.

It portrays a modern metropolis formed by different neighbourhoods with contrasting habitats such as Sahara, Jungle or Tundra, all comprised in the same space and separated by physical walls. The film reflects contemporary global cities in which the negotiation of space is a constant issue. Zootopia is a film about the city space, in this case, about the global city of Zootopia. This paper analyses the Walt Disney’s animation film Zootopia (2016) within the context of contemporary cinematic representations of global cities as borderlands but also as bordering, exclusive, diverse and cosmopolitan places. Film Studies, Zootopia, Global City, Cosmopolitanism, Borderlands, Diversity Abstract

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