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ABSTRACT
The Journey to Pemberley:
Pride and Prejudice and Brideshead Revisited and the heritage industry
It has been argued that heritage cinema offers conservative and celebratory visions
of the English past. The films are typically set in an English, southern middle- or
upper class surroundings, and convey nostalgic feelings. Heritage films have been
linked to the marketing and consumption of Britain’s cultural heritage as a tourist
attraction, emphasizing picturesque landscape and various monuments of the past,
such as country houses and abbeys. In this article the author explores various
aspects of English heritage in two television series, Pride and Prejudice (1995) and
Brideshead Revisited (1981), such as the manner in which the main protagonists
partake themselves in the consumption of the heritage industry.
Keywords: heritage cinema, nationalism, Englishness, nostalgia, tourism