Not the bluebird of happiness: Bird imagery in the film Mansfield Park

From: Literature/Film Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Parrill, Sue | Copyright information

Much to the distress of many of the more traditional of Jane Austen's critics and fans, in the recent film Mansfield Park (1999), based on Jane Austen's novel, writer/director Patricia Rozema has made the issue of slavery paramount. Rozema has said that in her opinion Jane Austen constructed the novel as "a meditation on captivity and on servitude in all its forms" (DVD commentary). Thus she felt it imperative that the film should illustrate the "moral consequences" of slavery. Through the im...

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