Gothic reminiscences in film versions of "Wuthering heights" by E. Bronte

The article analyses two film versions of Emily Bronte’s «Wuthering Heights», released in 1978 and 1992. The research is aimed at proving that its screen adaptation reveals Gothic-Romantic literary «landscape», hidden in Bronte’s text, and refers to the style and genre of Gothic novel. «Wuthering Heights» (5-episode TV-serial; director Peter Hummond, 1978) transmuted different elements of the novel into the mythical and symbolic forms that can be easily recognized as gothic allusions. Due to its TV origin the Hummond’s film adds to the cruelties of Bronte’s novel all the force of the photographic image. This strikingly perceptible representation of eccentricities of human nature becomes an effective method to gothicize the domestic sphere and saturate it with the primordial energies. Comparing TV-serial by Peter Hummond to P. Kosminsky’s film we have found out the essential differences in these adaptations, which are conditioned by the fact that they belong to different aesthetic spheres - cinematograph and television.