Wuthering Heights x The Promise of Happiness with Zoe Mix

Wuthering Heights x The Promise of Happiness with Zoe Mix

If you've been following the *discourse,* you know that Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights" is a divisive film! So of course, we had to watch it and try to make sense of its turbulent place in the zeitgeist. Rather than ask if the film is a "good" or "bad" adaptation, Marcelle leads us in an episode about marriage as a marker and maker of happiness, our collective imagination around Emily Brontë's source material, Heathcliff as romantic hero, and the lure of the abject. This episode is for the lovers, the haters and the die-hard Sara Ahmed heads!


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Works Cited

“Adaptations of Wuthering Heights” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. February 11, 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Wuthering_Heights.


Ahmed, Sara. 2010. The Promise of Happiness. Duke University Press.


Anderson, Hephzibah. 2018. “Heathcliff and Literature’s Greatest Love Story Are Toxic.” BBC. July 30, 2018. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180725-heathcliff-and-literatures-greatest-love-story-are-toxic.


“Emerald Fennell defends ‘depraved’ Wuthering Heights film adaptation: ‘I’m just a goth girl.’” The Australian, YouTube video, 3:37, https://youtu.be/QeooWeEEDJg?si=JMf2hQUoASutoKK1.


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