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The Problem With Casting Heathcliff
🕑 Added 2024-10-28 16:30:02 +0000 UTCI AM HEATHCLIFF!
▶️ Sources:
📍 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Edgeworth
📍 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ourika
📍 https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/history-of-slavery/europe
📍 Empire of Cotton: A Global History By Sven Beckert
📍Wuthering Heights and the Liverpool Slave Trade| https://www.jstor.org/stable/30030265
📍 "Marks of Race": G---y Figures and Eccentric Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3828863
📍 “IMAGES OF BLACKNESS IN THE WORKS OF CHARLOTTE AND EMILY BRONTË” | https://www.jstor.org/stable/44325077
📍 "Heathcliff is Me!": Wuthering Heights and the Question of Likeness | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3044981
▶️ Other Wuthering Heights Reading:
📍 Ethical Engagements over Time: Reading and Rereading "David Copperfield" and "Wuthering Heights" | https://www.jstor.org/stable/20107353
📍 "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
📍 Feminist criticism of "Wuthering Heights" | https://www.jstor.org/stable/41555645
📍Traversing the Atlantic: From Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" to Condé's "La Migration des cœurs" | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40986192
📍 The Villain in Wuthering Heights | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3044379
📍 "Abroad and at Home": Sexual Ambiguity, Miscegenation, and Colonial Boundaries in Edgeworth's Belinda | https://www.jstor.org/stable/463091
📍 Juba's "Black Face" / Lady Delacour's "Mask": Plotting Domesticity in Maria Edgeworth's "Belinda" | https://www.jstor.org/stable/23365026
📍 @pbsstoried | The Byronic Hero: Isn’t it Byronic? (Feat. Princess Weekes) | It’s Lit | https://youtu.be/t4wNZDIH8d8?si=8rBmHrOZ-oi3OlHp
📍 @florida.florian
Comments
CassieWasRight
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.
Alice LWatson
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.
Grace Thomas
This topic being covered by you feels very bespoke to my needs 😆 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
