Sweeney Todd: from England to the U.S., a product eloquent to reflect about urban dynamics

Abstract

The intention of this article is explore the relationship between society and urban space, from a sociological reading of the film “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” an adaptation of a popular English history, by Tim Burton. In this work are highlighted the social trajectory of the story that inspired the film, as a cultural product, and the characteristics of the society and the city printed in the story, as a description of subjective content, of a situation in which a new order apear, inspiring new habits and urban sensibilities. Show the allegories of the fears, hopes and discomforts of society into a cultural product, changing as conjuncture.