There is no place like home – the house as confinement, character and idealized space in the movie Pride and Prejudice

Authors

  • Karina Gomes Barbosa Universidade de Brasília; Universidade Católica de Brasília

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2013v18n1p128

Abstract

This paper analyzes three ways in which the figure of the house is represented in the 2005's film version of  the book Pride and Prejudice: as a space of confinement, as a character and as idealized space of affection. To serve as a support for the analysis of this adaptation of one of Jane Austen's books, we use the theories of film and mass culture and feminist theories. To look on the cinematic language of the audiovisual work allows us to show how, far from being an idealized and pacified space as the film tries to present, the figure of the house is usurped of all other meanings in the narrative and especially in the story of the female characters, to offer a fictional strengthening of the patriarchal view of the house as the only space allowed to heroin, which is allowed to move in very different spaces from those covered by the male hero.

Author Biography

Karina Gomes Barbosa, Universidade de Brasília; Universidade Católica de Brasília

Doutoranda em Comunicação Social pela Universidade de Brasília na linha Imagem e Som. Mestre em Comunicação Social, na linha Imagem e Som, pela Universidade de Brasília (2009). Graduada em Comunicação Social pela Universidade de Brasília (2006) e em Relações Internacionais pela Universidade de Brasília (2002). Bolsista da Universidade de Brasília. Professora da Universidade Católica de Brasília, onde coordena o laboratório digital, o jornal-laboratório, a revista de jornalismo e a implantação do portal-laboratório de convergência digital do curso. Como jornalista, tem passagens pelo CorreioWeb, Editora Abril, PSDB, Hoje em Dia e Ministério de Minas e Energia. Pesquisa a representação do amor nos dispositivos audiovisuais contemporâneos.

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Published

2013-06-07

How to Cite

BARBOSA, Karina Gomes. There is no place like home – the house as confinement, character and idealized space in the movie Pride and Prejudice. Anuário de Literatura, [S. l.], v. 18, n. 1, p. 128–145, 2013. DOI: 10.5007/2175-7917.2013v18n1p128. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/literatura/article/view/2175-7917.2013v18n1p128. Acesso em: 10 jan. 2026.

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2013)

Section

Literatura e Cinema

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