Fantasmas e suas performances: O espaço gótico de O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes para as produções audiovisuais de Kate Bush

Abstract

The book Wuthering Heights, written by the English author Emily Brontë (1818-1848), has the space as a noteworthy element in the composition of narrative, directly linked to the character and, in a way, to the supernatural. The novel, published in the year 1847, appears in a variety of new productions and adaptations, that are inserted in different types of media. The purpose of the present work was to execute an analysis of the possibility of gothic space representation in the literary work and its adaptation of the musical setting. Thus, the main focus of analysis fell on the transposition of the novel into the audiovisual productions of singer Kate Bush (1958 -), these being the song Wuthering Heights and three video clips produced for the song. Therefore, concepts such as Adaptation and Intermediality became essential to understanding how the new meanings of a work are updated, as well as the types of interrelations and interactions that occur between different media, using, for this purpose, the contributions of Hutcheon (2013) and Clüver (2006). Furthermore, when dealing with space, the theories of Lins (1976), Dimas (1984) and Candido (2006) proved to be substantial in outlining a study plan about its structuring in the midst of a gothic novel. Thus, it was observed that, since space is an essential element for the development of the narrative, its transposition to music videos entails changes in its meanings and other elements that constitute it as a medium. The aim, then, was to understand the fusion of music, performance and intermediality present in Bush's work and how these aspects revive Brontë's work in order to bring contributions to the field of literature studies and its influence on other arts.