Margaret Mitchell to Julia Collier Harris, 28 April 1936, Gone with the Wind Letters, 6.ĥ. On Gone with the Wind as bildungsroman, see Dawson Gaillard, 'Gone with the Wind as Bildungsroman: or, Why Did Rhett Butler Really Leave Scarlett O'Hara,' Georgia Review 28 (Spring 1974): 9-18.Ĥ. On the conflicts involved in being a working woman in Margaret Mitchell's era see Marian Morton, ''My Dear, I Don't Give a Damn:' Scarlett O'Hara and the Great Depression,' Frontiers (1980): 52-56.ģ. For the most up to date treatment of Mitchell's life, see Darden Asbury Pyron, Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell (Harper, 1991). Harwell, ed., Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind Letters, 1936-1949 (Collier Books, 1976) xvii. McPherson (Oxford University Press, 1982), and Jim Cullen, The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reusable Past (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995 ), 67.Ģ. On sales see Willie Lee Rose, 'Race and Region in Historical Fiction,' in Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Quotations from Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (Macmillan, 1936) are cited by page numbers in the text.

Her most recent book, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, won the Parkman and Craven Prizes and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.ġ. “If we are to create a more just, equitable and inclusive future, we must first acknowledge and understand our history.Drew Gilpin Faust is Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. “When we return the film to HBO Max, it will return with a discussion of its historical context and a denouncement of those very depictions, but will be presented as it was originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed,” the company said in its statement.

That is exactly what WarnerMedia said it would do. I would just ask, after a respectful amount of time has passed, that the film be re-introduced to the HBO Max platform,” Ridley said, saying it should be paired with films that depict the slave era more accurately, or be placed in context that acknowledging the damaging aspects of the movie. I don’t think Gone With the Wind should be relegated to a vault in Burbank. “Let me be real clear: I don’t believe in censorship. Ridley did not call for the movie to be removed forever, as Disney has done with the similarly troubling Song of the South. He went on to say that the 81-year-old film does real harm today by romanticizing the Confederacy and legitimizing the notion that secession from the Union in order to protect slave ownership was a noble cause: “It continues to give cover to those who falsely claim that clinging to the iconography of the plantation era is a matter of ‘heritage, not hate.’”

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