Title: A CIDADE DE MUITOS OLHOS NA FICÇÃO CONTEMPORÂNEA
Abstract: This thesis investigates the representation of urban experience today through literary as well as cinematographic works produced in the 21st century.Its aim is to understand how post-globalization times, permeated by cyberspace, bring a new significance to public and private spaces.The transdisciplinary aspect of the thesis emphasized the dialog among classical texts on the city by urbanist authors, expanding the research to different scenarios like global cities and smart cities.It implicates that reading about urban experience today, necessarily touches on the tension between an individual's journey and the encapsulating situations, that happen to come along, either by the attraction to digital screens that replace the "windows" to the world or by the seclusion caused by the fear and insecurity from living in the city, housing conflicts or yet, by immigration policies, that confine immigrants and refugees alike in campings and immigration centers, which aim to protect national security.Owing to the pandemic in 2020 that led to a state of confinement and lockdown in cities as a whole, works published between March and July of 2020 have been incorporated into this thesis.