The Feminine in Wuthering Heights Adaptations

The intention of the paper is to demonstrate the way in which the feminine in Wuthering Heights films is rendered on screen, in consideration of the historical, cultural and socio-economical context of the adaptations, but also on whether the director of the film was a woman or a man. This particular issue is of interest to me, as the feminine in the Wuthering Heights screenings, I shall consider overtly, speaks for the role of the women and the way in which they were perceived by the societies of those times. In my endeavour, I shall focus on analysing various Wuthering Heights adaptations in terms of their fidelity or lack of it to the source text; moreover, it is my intention to also address this inquiry in terms of intertextuality and with reference to the layering process that undergoes an addition in meaning, through the adding and or altering of previous re workings. The partial conclusion so far is that Wuthering Heights film adaptations imply both recognition and remembrance of the novel, while also carrying an individual aura within them in terms of the way in which the original material is filtered and staged. I contemplate that my project contributes to the field of adaptive studies, while also addressing instances of cinematic depictions, especially as regards the way in which the feminine is delivered to the public.