Walker Library: ENGL 3330: Southern Literature (Dubek): Module 1: Gone With the Wind

Selected Feature Articles & Critical Articles

Feature articles:

"Tara, Revisited: On TNT, the Story of 'Gone With the Wind' 'Making of a Legend,'" by Tom Shales
the Washington Post, 1988,
"Why We Give a Damn About Scarlett --- As it turns 70, 'Gone With the Wind' still stirs complicated feelings, which is part of the movie's allure," by David Mermelstein
the Wall Street Journal, 2009.

Critical articles:

"The book, the movie, the dream." by Robert Drake
The Mississippi Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 2, spring 1991.
"Scarlett O'Hara as a confederate woman," by Katherine Lane Antolini
West Virginia Philological Papers, vol. 51, 2004.
"'The book belongs to all of us': Gone with the Wind as postcultural product," by Jan Cronin
Literature-Film Quarterly, vol. 35, issue 1, 2007.
"Protesting 'a Bigger and Better Birth of a Nation': Lost Causism and Black Resistance to David O. Selznick's Gone with the Wind, 1936–1940," by Taulby H. Edmonson.
Journal of African American History, vol.105, issue 2, 2020.

Selected Editorials & News Articles

Editorials:

"Begone with the wind: How Hollywood rewrites slavery," by Ayanna Dozier.
Bitch Magazine: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, n. 87, 2020.
"BURN, TARA, BURN!: 'Gone With the Wind': Can We Talk Frankly?" by Stephen Hunter
the Washington Post, June 1998.
"Hey, HBO, ‘Gone With the Wind’ romanticizes the horrors of slavery. Take it off your platform for now," by John Ridley.
The Los Angeles Times, June 2020.

News articles:

"HBO Max Pulls ‘Gone With the Wind,’ Citing Racist Depictions," by Daniel Victor
the New York Times, June 2020.
"‘Gone With the Wind’ Returns to HBO Max With a Few Additions," by Jason Bailey
the New York Times, June 2020.

Selected Reviews

"Review of Gone with the Wind." by David Finkle
The New York Times Book Review, vol. 94, 1989.
Discusses both the book and the film.
"Spectacle/gender/history: the case of Gone with the Wind," by Tom Brown.
Screen, vol. 49, issue 2, 2008.
A very lengthy review of the film, almost critical article length.
"The making of Gone with the Wind," by Gavin Lambert
The Atlantic, vol 231, issue 2, 1973.
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