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Gone With the Wind

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Gone with the Wind (1939) is a landmark film from Hollywood's Golden Age, widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. Set against the backdrop of the American South, it has profoundly shaped popular perceptions of southern history for over seventy-five years. Helen Taylor provides a detailed account of the film's production, its critical and public reception, and its enduring cultural legacy.
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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.

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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.

Series: BFI Film Classics

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781844578719

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 November 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: BFI Publishing

Illustration: 60 colour stills and screen grabs

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 134.0mm

Height: 188.0mm

Weight: 188g

Pages: 118

About the Author

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.

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