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    "pk": 42712,
    "title": "Interplanetary Border Imaginaries in \nUpside Down\n: Divisions and Connections in the American Continent",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "This paper provides a close analysis of \nUpside Down\n (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. \nUpside Down\n 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.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "<p>Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.</p>",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Transnational"
        },
        {
            "word": "American Studies"
        },
        {
            "word": "Science Fiction"
        },
        {
            "word": "film"
        },
        {
            "word": "borders"
        },
        {
            "word": "The Americas"
        },
        {
            "word": "Upside Down"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Articles",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/61j566s9",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Pablo",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gómez Muñoz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Zaragoza",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2014-08-09T08:36:34Z",
    "date_accepted": "2014-08-09T08:36:34Z",
    "date_published": "2016-07-29T15:19:34Z",
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}