The Facets Of Representation. A Study On Race and Gender Binaries in Disney's Zootopia

Animation movies have long been praised and criticized for the implicit representation they make of human society and its values, and how these representations might affect younger people, their main audience. Disney and Pixar are the two main contributors to this tradition and have recently started to include a more varied representation of ethnicities and less gender-based stereotypes. We will thus study how their "most subversive" movie, Zootopia, represents the interrelation among race, sex and gender