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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 December 2024. 1939 film by Victor Fleming Gone with the Wind Theatrical release poster Directed by Victor Fleming Screenplay by Sidney Howard Based on Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Produced by David O. Selznick Starring Clark Gable Vivien Leigh Leslie Howard Olivia de Havilland ...
Southern plantation fiction (also known as Anti-Tom literature, in reference to reactions to Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin of 1852) from the mid-19th century, culminating in Gone with the Wind, is written from the perspective and values of an enslaver and tends to present slaves as docile and happy.
Gone with the Wind revolves around Scarlett O'Hara, a pampered Southern white woman, who lives through the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The Wind Done Gone is the same story, but told from the viewpoint of Cynara, a mulatto slave on Scarlett's plantation and the daughter of Scarlett's father and Mammy.
On Wednesday, Lou Lumenick, an entertainment critic for the New York Post, called for the 1939 classic film to share the same fate as the Confederate flag.
The hostess and homeowner was Hattie McDaniel, who, in 1939, became the first African American to win the Oscar, for her role as Mammy in “Gone With the Wind.”
Gone With the Wind will now come with a trigger warning for those affected by descriptions of 19th century slavery in the Deep South. The Daily Telegraph in the UK reports that publisher Pan ...
Tara is a fictional plantation in the state of Georgia, in the historical novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.In the story, Tara is located 5 miles (8 km) from Jonesboro (originally spelled Jonesborough), in Clayton County, on the east side of the Flint River about 20 miles (32 km) south of Atlanta.
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) [2] was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Fiction for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 [3] and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937.