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How Emerald Fennell Captured the Transgressive Power of Wuthering Heights
On Sunday afternoon—just hours before the Super Bowl—members of the Vogue Book Club gathered at the SVA Theatre in Chelsea for a special preview screening of Wuthering Heights, followed by an insightful conversation between director Emerald Fennell and Chloe for The Run-Through.
Drawing on literary scholarship and her own teenage memories of the book, Fennell chose to lean into its sadomasochistic undercurrents. As she explained, “There’s a quote from Daphne du Maurier in which she describes Wuthering Heights as a kind of sexless book. But I’ve never experienced it that way. That’s part of…
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