000130128 001__ 130128 000130128 005__ 20240731103359.0 000130128 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.14198/raei.2023.39.07 000130128 0248_ $$2sideral$$a136444 000130128 037__ $$aART-2023-136444 000130128 041__ $$aeng 000130128 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-3601-6560$$aBuesa, Andrés$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000130128 245__ $$aDon’t step across this line: crossing borders in little men 000130128 260__ $$c2023 000130128 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000130128 5203_ $$aThis article explores the role of borders in contemporary cities and their implications in social stratification in Ira Sachs’ Little Men (2016). Drawing on border theory and its application to film studies, it first situates the movie within the category of the “border film”, insofar as it focuses on New York urban borders and borderlands as a thematic element; and it uses borders narratively in order to explore the social and racial dynamics between an Anglo family—the Jardines—and their Latino tenants—the Calvellis. From this approach, it then explores the narrative and aesthetic strategies by which the film represents the conflict between the families in terms of a simultaneous process of border building— in the case of the adults—and border crossing—in the case of the children. It ultimately contends that the film, by reaffirming the border between the children in the epilogue, questions the notion of equality that underlies the essentially neoliberal myth of the American Dream. 000130128 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 000130128 592__ $$a0.163$$b2023 000130128 593__ $$aLiterature and Literary Theory$$c2023$$dQ1 000130128 593__ $$aCultural Studies$$c2023$$dQ2 000130128 593__ $$aLinguistics and Language$$c2023$$dQ2 000130128 594__ $$a0.7$$b2023 000130128 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000130128 7102_ $$13004$$2345$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.$$cÁrea Filología Inglesa 000130128 773__ $$g39 (2023), 145-162$$pRev. alicant. estud. ingl.$$tRevista alicantina de estudios ingleses$$x0214-4808 000130128 8564_ $$s593520$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/130128/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000130128 8564_ $$s1005947$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/130128/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000130128 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:130128$$particulos$$pdriver 000130128 951__ $$a2024-07-31-09:58:17 000130128 980__ $$aARTICLE