Recasting: Gone with the Wind in American Culture

by Darden A. Pyron (Editor)

Overview

This collection of essays comments on the pre-World War II culture of the United States, when David O. Selznick produced

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813007472
Publisher:	University Press of Florida
Publication date:	08/20/1983
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
	Introduction	1
1	The Critical Setting	5
	The Civil War in Georgia's Red Clay Hills	11
	Going with the Wind	17
	The Case of the Cool Reception	21
2	Gone with the Wind as Art	33
	A Striking Resemblance to a Masterpiece: Gone with the Wind in 1936	39
	Gea in Georgia: A Mythic Dimension in Gone with the Wind	57
	The Company of Giants	69
	Scarlett O'Hara and the Two Quentin Compsons	81
	"The Bad Little Girl of the Good Old Days": Sex, Gender, and the Southern Social Order	105
3	Gone with the Wind as History	117
	From The Clansman and Birth of a Nation to Gone with the Wind: The Loss of American Innocence	123
	Winds of Change: Gone with the Wind and Racism as a National Issue	137
	Race, Romance, and the Southern Literary Tradition	153
	The "Simple Story's" Ideology: Gone with the Wind and the New South Creed	167
	The Inner War of Southern History	185
	A Bibliographical Essay	203
	Index	225