From literary text to film: Analysis of two female characters in Wuthering Heights (1847), by Emily Brontë and their representation in the film directed by William Wyler (1939)

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https://doi.org/10.31637/epsir-2025-703

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Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, diseminación cultural, adaptaciones cinematográficas, Wyler, personajes femeninos, Catherine Earnshaw, Isabella Linton

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Introduction: Wuthering Heights (1847) has been filmed and televised many times, and this paper proposes to study two female characters from Emily Brontë's literary text and their representation in the movie directed by Wyler (1939). In the novel, the author denounces the social discrimination faced by women through two characters, Catherine Earnshaw and Isabella Linton, and the aim is to analyse their representation in this film. This version stops to highlight Catherine's childhood, and the viewer needs to understand why this character chooses to belong to the Linton world. The film omits an essential part of Isabella Linton's story, that of an abused woman. Methodology: The methodology used for this analysis is Stoneman's reception and cultural dissemination aesthetics, providing a clear framework for our study. Discussion: The discussion will focus on the discrepancies in the representation of the female characters, highlighting the urgent need for critical analysis. Conclusions: This adaptation is a censored version that does not represent the social dismissal of women that Emily Brontë intended through her female characters.

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Ana Pérez Porras, Universidad de Granada

Ana Pérez Porras is a Tenured Professor and Doctor at the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Granada. She holds an International PhD in Modern Languages, Translation, and Spanish as a Foreign Language from Pablo de Olavide University. Among her notable publications are: "Wuthering Heights in the Post-Civil-War Period: Analysis and Evaluation of the Translation by El Bachiller Canseco (1947)" (2017) and "Film Materials as Tools for Teaching English Literature: A Study of Brontëan Narrative and its Cultural Dissemination through the Adaptation by Coky Giedroyc (2009)," published in Human Review (2023).

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2024-11-22

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Pérez Porras, A. (2024). From literary text to film: Analysis of two female characters in Wuthering Heights (1847), by Emily Brontë and their representation in the film directed by William Wyler (1939). European Public & Social Innovation Review, 10, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.31637/epsir-2025-703

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Vol. 10 (2025)

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Humanismo y Ciencias Sociales

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