Mad Men and period dramas

The Telegraph and Argus highlights a new study which considers the area around Keighley to be 'the UK's joint most romantic filming location'.

According to research, nearly a quarter of movies and TV shows shot in this area have been romances.

Films have included several Brontë-related classics, such as the 2011 Oscar-nominated version of Jane Eyre, the 1992 adaptation of Wuthering Heights – starring Juliette Binoche as Cathy and Ralph Fiennes as Heathcliff – and the 2022 movie Emily. [...]

To compile the data, a list of the UK's 430 largest towns and cities by population was initially drawn up.

Each location's page on IMDb – the online film and TV database – was then analysed, with the total number of productions and those featuring in the 'romantic' genre being recorded.

Places with less than 50 productions were discounted, before the percentage of romance films for the remainder was calculated. (Alistair Shand)

According to ScreenRant,

Mad Men made period dramas cool, after the genre had long suffered a reputation for being exclusively concerned with Austen, Dickens, Brontë, and their ilk. (Ben Protheroe)

La Repubblica (Italy) has an article about Wuthering Heights by Annalena Benini, who is the editorial director of the Salone Internazionale del Libro of Turin. Let's remember that Wuthering Heights is this year's chosen book for the National Student Reading Project (Un Libro Tante Scuole):

Non avevo mai visto la brughiera quando ho letto per la prima volta Cime tempestose, ma è il paesaggio più vivido e attraversato dal vento che io abbia mai incontrato: la natura più nuda, selvatica, minacciosa che abbia formato la mia immaginazione. Ho conosciuto ogni radice di erica e ho sentito sbattere forte le finestre sferzate dalla pioggia e dalla voce di Catherine Earnshaw che cerca Heathcliff, e cercando lui cerca sé stessa. Nella neve o nell’erba che cresce tra le pietre, con gli abeti piegati dalla bufera. Talmente più di un paesaggio e così parlante: come un’anima in pena, come un cuore selvaggio. (...) (Translation)

Both The Mirror and OK! features Antiques Roadshow and highlight some of its past finds including Charlotte Brontë's ring. AnneBrontë.org features a letter from Charlotte to Ellen Nussey written around 14th January 1843.