03935nam 2200901 a 450 991096809830332120241107095104.09786612351839978661208861297812823518371282351834978030015565503001556549781282088610128208861010.12987/9780300155655(CKB)1000000000764783(EBL)3420521(SSID)ssj0000158008(PQKBManifestationID)11160947(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158008(PQKBWorkID)10144549(PQKB)10240422(MiAaPQ)EBC3420521(DE-B1597)485388(OCoLC)1023998417(OCoLC)1029814178(OCoLC)1032676968(OCoLC)1037968274(OCoLC)1041990204(OCoLC)1046603763(OCoLC)1047001034(OCoLC)1049624025(OCoLC)1054867576(DE-B1597)9780300155655(MiAaPQ)EBC5292503(Au-PeEL)EBL3420521(CaPaEBR)ebr10348415(CaONFJC)MIL235183(OCoLC)923594114(Au-PeEL)EBL5292503(CaONFJC)MIL208861(OCoLC)1028948650(ODN)ODN0000300551(EXLCZ)99100000000076478320080821d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrankly, my dear Gone with the wind revisited /Molly Haskell1st ed.New Haven [Conn.] Yale University Pressc20091 online resource (273 p.)Icons of AmericaSeries statement from back jacket flap.0-300-11752-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-231) and index.The American Bible -- Boldness and desperation -- Finding the road to ladyhood hard -- E pluribus unum -- Beautiful dreamers.How and why has the saga of Scarlett O'Hara kept such a tenacious hold on our national imagination for almost three-quarters of a century? In the first book ever to deal simultaneously with Margaret Mitchell's beloved novel and David Selznick's spectacular film version of Gone with the Wind, film critic Molly Haskell seeks the answers. By all industry predictions, the film should never have worked. What makes it work so amazingly well are the fascinating and uncompromising personalities that Haskell dissects here: Margaret Mitchell, David Selznick, and Vivien Leigh. As a feminist and onetime Southern adolescent, Haskell understands how the story takes on different shades of meaning according to the age and eye of the beholder. She explores how it has kept its edge because of Margaret Mitchell's (and our) ambivalence about Scarlett and because of the complex racial and sexual attitudes embedded in a story that at one time or another has offended almost everyone.Haskell imaginatively weaves together disparate strands, conducting her story as her own inner debate between enchantment and disenchantment. Sensitive to the ways in which history and cinema intersect, she reminds us why these characters, so riveting to Depression audiences, continue to fascinate 70 years later.Icons of America.NonfictionOverDriveHistoryOverDrivePerforming ArtsOverDriveNonfiction.History.Performing Arts.791.43/72HIS000000PER000000bisacshHaskell Molly1136487MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910968098303321Frankly, my dear4329965UNINA