A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: MORALISMO E RESISTÊNCIA NO TEATRO E NO CINEMA

Abstract

In 1947, Tennessee Williams published the play A Streetcar Named Desire. With it, he birthed the main character of his plot, Blanche Dubois that for decades has been discussed by scholars from multiple fields. From feminists to literary critics, everyone seems to absorb Blanche in their texts. After having been involved with a young student from her southern hometown school, Blanche evades to her sister Stella in New Orleans intending to escape moralistic judgments. Then, she starts living a conflict between reality and illusion. With the objective of fomenting new analyses regarding Blanche in light of the multicultural and resistance discourses, it is examined how the character’s conflict is rendered in the homonymous movie adaptation by Elia Kazan in 1951 considering some aesthetic devices such as fil editing, lines, lighting, and shots. The theoretical framework in this study includes Jakobson (1991), Gomes (2011), Plaza (2013), Kaplan (1983), and others.