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Biographical note
HELEN TAYLOR is Emerita Professor of English at the University of Exeter, UK, and an Honorary Fellow of the British Association of American Studies. She is the author of Scarlett's Women: Gone With the Wind and its Female Fans (1989; 2014) and Circling Dixie: Contemporary Southern Culture through a Transatlantic Lens (2001), among other titles.Gone with the Wind (1939) is one of the greatest films of all time - the best-known of Hollywood's Golden Age and a work that has, in popular imagination, defined southern American history for three-quarters of a century. Drawing on three decades of pertinent research, Helen Taylor charts the film's production history, reception and legacy.
Gone with the Wind (1939) is one of the greatest films of all time - the best-known of Hollywood's Golden Age and a work that has, in popular imagination, defined southern American history for three-quarters of a century.
Arguing that the film, with its disturbing racial politics, set the agenda for more than a century's film representations of slavery and the Civil War, Taylor shows how it has been engaged with and challenged since – from the mini-series Roots (1977) to 12 Years a Slave (2014). Drawing on new archival material about Vivien Leigh and seventy-five years of scholarship and popular culture references, Taylor makes the case for the film's classic status.
This special edition features original cover artwork by HelloVon.
Gone with the Wind is enduringly popular and widely studied today
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