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Andrea Arnold’s 2011 Wuthering Heights cast James Howson (left) as the first Black Heathcliff, while Jacob Elordi (right) joined more than 30 white actors to play the role. The Conversation. Oscilloscope Pictures (left), Warner Bros. Pictures (right)

Brontë’s Heathcliff wasn’t white. Jacob Elordi is. Is that a problem?

Ellie Crookes, University of Wollongong

Emerald Fennell’s film is not interested in the racial commentary many critics have found in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.

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