63363 20220215103548.0 sideral 102340 ART-2016-102340 eng Gómez Muñoz, Pablo Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6255-295X Interplanetary Border Imaginaries in Upside Down: Divisions and Connections in the American Continent 2016 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This paper provides a close analysis of Upside Down (dir. Juan Solanas, 2012), a science fiction film that presents two radically different portraits of two neighboring planets to metaphorically explore and negotiate the economic divide between the US and Latin America. The film focuses on the role of borders, legal provisions, and contact between humans in structuring interactions and movement between Latin America and the US. Gómez Muñoz employs Mark Shiel's geographic approach to film and pays special attention to characters' movements in the spaces that the film depicts. The first part of the paper focuses on boundaries and discrimination practices in the Americas. The second part considers exceptions to the limitations that borders try to impose in the film and examines the potential of transnational love in bridging differences and advancing understanding. Upside Down suggests that people infuse their images of borders and other nations with their own personal and local perceptions. Their transnational/trans-American relationships allow them to draw from different sources and bring disparate practices together for their own and their societies' benefit. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 0.116 2016 Cultural Studies 2016 Q3 Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 2016 Q4 Communication 2016 Q4 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 7, 1 (2016), [1-20 pp.] J. transnat. am. studies Journal of Transnational American Studies 1940-0764 297620 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/63363/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 86767 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/63363/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:63363 articulos driver 2022-02-15-10:04:47 ARTICLE