Zootopia and the careless allegory - Movies are for the birds
Channel: Nichtschwert
Date: 2019-10-16

Edit (29.01.2020):
Recently, Jack Saint released the video "Zootopia, Umasou, and the Failures of Race Allegory" which delves into many of the same topics I discuss here, but with a broader sample size of media and some added nuance to the approach. It's well worth watching and not just because I have a little cameo in it.
So if you aren't one of the people coming here from that video and haven't seen it yet, I strongly recommend it: https://youtu.be/7oR6iET6FVo



Original Description:

This is the first video of mine where the politics are front and center. I give my two cents on how Zootopia depicts race and why I think it could do with some improvements in that regard.


Music Credits:

"Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/


Image Credits and Sources:

Maus (ISBN 978-0-14-101408-1)
MetaMaus (ISBN 978-0-670-91683-2)
by Art Spiegelman

Steamboat Willie
Tom and Jerry

Photo of Art Spiegelman (slightly edited)
by Chris Anthony Diaz (licensed under CC BY 2.0)
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Photo of a Pig Gestation Crate (slightly edited)
by the Humane Society of the United States (licensed under CC BY 3.0)
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

+ various fascist propaganda


Special Thanks

cattun (cattun.tumblr.com)
Broeckchen (www.linktr.ee/Broeckchen89)