Além de um castelo de cartas : a metaficção na série House of cards.

Abstract

This research discusses narrative diegetic levels and metafiction, observing how both concepts can be identified in the audiovisual production House of Cards. Narrative levels and metafiction were identified as present in the series, strengthening the relation of complicity between narrator and audience. Are understood as metafiction fictional products that somehow duplicate the narrative within the body of work, and thus alters the viewer's relation towards it. After literature review on literary theory, metafiction and audiovisual, methodology was developed with basis on the occurrence of explicitly diegetic metafiction situations. In order to address them, three subcategories where then created by this study – metafictional diegetic, confessional metafictional and sign metafictional. House of Cards became particularly relevant for this study because its audiovisual narrative is structured at different diegetic levels. Moreover, in one of them, an intra-diegetic narrator addresses the spectator directly. From this, it was noted that these categories create a microcosm between narrator and viewer, once used. By doing so, the narrator delivers to the viewer information that other characters do not have access to. The "delivery" of exclusive information to the viewer breaks the so-called "fourth wall", aiming to require viewer's attention and create the feeling of more active interpretation work.