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The Problem With Casting Heathcliff

I AM HEATHCLIFF!

โ–ถ๏ธ Sources:

๐Ÿ“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Edgeworth

๐Ÿ“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ourika

๐Ÿ“ https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/history-of-slavery/europe

๐Ÿ“ Empire of Cotton: A Global History By Sven Beckert

๐Ÿ“Wuthering Heights and the Liverpool Slave Trade| https://www.jstor.org/stable/30030265

๐Ÿ“ "Marks of Race": G---y Figures and Eccentric Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3828863

๐Ÿ“ โ€œIMAGES OF BLACKNESS IN THE WORKS OF CHARLOTTE AND EMILY BRONTร‹โ€ | https://www.jstor.org/stable/44325077 

๐Ÿ“ "Heathcliff is Me!": Wuthering Heights and the Question of Likeness | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3044981

 

โ–ถ๏ธ Other Wuthering Heights Reading:

๐Ÿ“ Ethical Engagements over Time: Reading and Rereading "David Copperfield" and "Wuthering Heights" | https://www.jstor.org/stable/20107353 

๐Ÿ“ "My name was Isabella Linton": Coverture, Domestic Violence, and Mrs. Heathcliff's Narrative in Wuthering Heights | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/ncl.2009.64.3.347

๐Ÿ“ Feminist criticism of "Wuthering Heights" | https://www.jstor.org/stable/41555645 

๐Ÿ“Traversing the Atlantic: From Brontรซ's "Wuthering Heights" to Condรฉ's "La Migration des cล“urs" | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40986192

๐Ÿ“ The Villain in Wuthering Heights | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3044379

๐Ÿ“ "Abroad and at Home": Sexual Ambiguity, Miscegenation, and Colonial Boundaries in Edgeworth's Belinda | https://www.jstor.org/stable/463091

๐Ÿ“ Juba's "Black Face" / Lady Delacour's "Mask": Plotting Domesticity in Maria Edgeworth's "Belinda" | https://www.jstor.org/stable/23365026

๐Ÿ“ @pbsstoried | The Byronic Hero: Isnโ€™t it Byronic? (Feat. Princess Weekes) | Itโ€™s Lit | https://youtu.be/t4wNZDIH8d8?si=8rBmHrOZ-oi3OlHp

๐Ÿ“ @florida.florian

The Problem With Casting Heathcliff

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Maybe this is just a paranoid reading poisoned by the fact that Trump just got elected, but I do also wonder if the reason we get a Jacob Elordi rather than a Romani or Black Heathcliff is because Hollywood directors are scared to cast non-white actors as characters that have traditionally played by white actors. Like I would not be surprised to find that white directors want really badly to avoid the backlash that Disney got when they cast Halle Bailey play Ariel in the Little Mermaid. I hope that producers, directors, and casting agents will be brave though, when it's done well non-traditional race-conscious casting can add so much to a story.

CassieWasRight

How could someone listen to one of your video's and NOT think you know a lot of shit about film/media and literary sources.

Alice LWatson

This topic being covered by you feels very bespoke to my needs ๐Ÿ˜† I was just telling my partner that WH is one of my favourite books but i am yet to see an adaptation that I like especially with the casting of Heathcliff

Grace Thomas


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