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Lorean Hoefert
Clearly the Time editors believed that this announcement would startle readers who viewed Twain as anything but dangerous. And indeed, for many in the English speaking world, Twain has come down as the white-haired, white-suited humorist, the genial author of two beloved boys books, and the avuncular wise-cracking wit. However, for many literary historians and scholars, Twain is the consummate writer of realistic fiction, the polished travel raconteur, the political commentator who opposed Western imperialism, the champion of the oppressed and exposer of shams, the author repressed by bourgeois values, the trenchant social satirist whose later writings embody an increasingly dark view of the human condition, and even a proponent of Cold War American exceptionalism.
The question is significant because conceptions of Twain and his texts have never been solely the products of his extraordinary writings and his crafting of his public persona. Rather, the diverse ways Twain and his texts have been received have also been major shaping factors. As reception-study critics and theorists have persuasively argued and demonstrated, the meaning, significance, and shape of literary texts, as well as writerly careers and reputations, are very much the products of the way those texts are read, interpreted, structured, and re-presented by readers, the mass media, and literary critics, all within the interpretive formations in which responses unfold. That dynamic certainly applies to Twain. Consequently, the various versions of Twain and his writings deserve wide-ranging analysis as products of both that reception process and its changing history.
The new title on the marquis, Zootopia (Released March 4), is a fun, cute, and incredibly important movie. The idyllic metropolis holds many different species of mammal; from the tiniest shrew to the biggest elephant. The movie follows Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin), a rabbit from the countryside who wishes to follow her childhood dreams of becoming a police officer in the big city of Zootopia.
After facing constant doubt and the gruelling police bootcamp, Judy makes it into the ranks of the Zootopia Police Department. Despite her astounding success in facing such insurmountable odds, Judy is placed as a meter maid in order to keep her out of the way of the other officers.
After cracking the case, Judy accidentally awakens a fear which has lied dormant within the citizens of Zootopia for a few thousand years. The hysteria shears the once-unified utopia in twain, as well as the dynamic detective duo.
Zootopia makes the viewer confront the issue of discrimination and bias in both society and in media through two fuzzy messengers. One message is kid-friendly, showing that dreams are reachable, while the second message subtly flows through the entirety of the film, leading to a happy denouement.
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