What’s “Natural” about “Naturalist” Cinema? On Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights (2012)
“Director Arnold heightens the once-“natural” processes of life events such as birth and death by setting them outside, historically as if for the last time, before Western medicine and Victorian domesticity.”


Virginia Konchan is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Believer, and Boston Review, among others.





