130128 20240731103359.0 doi 10.14198/raei.2023.39.07 sideral 136444 ART-2023-136444 eng Buesa, Andrés Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-3601-6560 Don’t step across this line: crossing borders in little men 2023 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This 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. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 0.163 2023 Literature and Literary Theory 2023 Q1 Cultural Studies 2023 Q2 Linguistics and Language 2023 Q2 0.7 2023 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 39 (2023), 145-162 Rev. alicant. estud. ingl. Revista alicantina de estudios ingleses 0214-4808 593520 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/130128/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1005947 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/130128/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:130128 articulos driver 2024-07-31-09:58:17 ARTICLE