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Wuthering Heights (Original title)
Dates: 2010 (Copyright), 20 September 2010 (Production), 11 November 2011 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Originated on: Andrea Arnold

Synopsis: Drama. The story of lovers Cathy and Heathcliffe.

Genres:
Drama, Romance

Subjects:
Interracial relationships, Love
Releases
Date: 11 November 2011Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Sound - Dolby DigitalAspect ratio: 1.33:1Runtime: 128 mins 46 secs - Length: 11589 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Artificial Eye Film Company
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 129 mins 6 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

Articles held in BFI Reuben Library (6)
In: Adaptation v14 n2 August 2021  Pages: 168-186
Title: Casting for the public good: BAME casting in British film and television in the 2010sAuthor: GERAGHTY, ChristineArticle type: ArticleLanguage: English
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In: Journal of British cinema and television v13 n1 2016  Pages: 177-194
Title: Nature and the non-human in Andrea Arnold's Wuthering HeightsAuthor: Lawrence, Michael Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Discusses Andrea Arnold's film adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel 'Wuthering Heights'. Examines the film's 'post-humanist' emphasis on the natural world, and comments on its challenge to idealised versions of 'white' and 'English' rural landscapes and life. Part of a dossier of articles on Andrea Arnold deriving from the University of Sussex's Annual Contemporary Directors Symposium, held at the BFI Southbank in May 2014.

In: Journal of British cinema and television v13 n1 2016  Pages: 195-213
Title: Red Roads from realism: theorising relationships between technique and theme in the cinema of Andrea ArnoldAuthor: MURRAY, Jonathan Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Considers the work of the British director Andrea Arnold in relation to the tradition of social realism, discussing areas including the individual and the social, the animal and the human, and visual style. Focuses on the film 'Red Road' (2006), also commenting on 'Fish Tank' (2009) and 'Wuthering Heights' (2011). Part of a dossier of articles on Andrea Arnold deriving from the University of Sussex's Annual Contemporary Directors Symposium, held at the BFI Southbank in May 2014.

In: Journal of British cinema and television v13 n1 2016  Pages: 214-231
Title: 'Not a country at all': landscape and Wuthering HeightsAuthor: THORNHAM, Sue Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Discussion of Andrea Arnold's 2011 film adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel 'Wuthering Heights', focusing on the representation of landscape. Considers Arnold's use of 'unframed' landscape and close-up textual detail, and suggests an 'alternative genealogy' of correspondences in the work of other female writers, photographers and filmmakers. Part of a dossier of articles on Andrea Arnold deriving from the University of Sussex's Annual Contemporary Directors Symposium, held at the BFI Southbank in May 2014.

In: Journal of British Cinema and Television v11 n1 2014  Pages: 86-100
Title: Auteurs and authenticity: adapting the Brontës in the twenty-first centuryAuthor: Galpin, Shelley AnneArticle type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Article discussing two screen adaptations of novels by the Brontë sisters: Cary Fukunaga's 'Jane Eyre' (2011) and Andrea Arnold's 'Wuthering Heights' (2010). Considers the films in relation to concepts of fidelity and the 'heritage' debate, and the influence of the directors' auteur status on the films' marketing strategy and artistic style.

In: Adaptation v5 n2 2012  Pages: 268-273
Title: Adapting Victorian novels: the poetics of glass in Jane Eyre and Wuthering HeightsAuthor: Pietrzak-Franger, MonikaArticle type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Review article on Cary Fukunaga's 'Jane Eyre' and Andrea Arnold's 'Wuthering Heights' (both 2011), commenting on the films' perceived restraint, their use of glass and window-scapes, and what they reveal about contemporary attitudes to the Victorians.


Books held in BFI Reuben Library (1)
Title: Race, nation and cultural power in film adaptation
Author: ROBERTS, Gillian  Pages: viii, 271 pages