Frankly, my dear : Gone with the wind revisited
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Frankly, my dear : Gone with the wind revisited
AUTHOR:
Haskell, Molly
ISBN:
9780300164374
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2009
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xiii, 244 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm
SERIES:
Icons of America
SERIES_TITLE:
Icons of America
GENERAL_NOTE:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-231) and index.
Series statement from back jacket flap.
ABSTRACT:
Haskell keeps both novel and movie at hand, moving from one to the other, comparing and distinguishing what Margaret Mitchell expresses from what obsessive producer David O. Selznick, directors George Cukor and Victor Fleming, screenplaywrights Sidney Howard and a host of fixers (including Ben Hecht and Scott Fitzgerald), and actors Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Hattie McDaniel, and others convey. She emphasizes the contributions of Selznick, Leigh, and in an entire chapter, Mitchell, drawing heavily and analytically on existing biographies, the literature of women and the Civil War, Civil War films (especially Birth of a Nation and Jezebel), and film criticism to such engaging effect as to not just revisit GWTW but to revive and intensify the enduring fascination of what Selznick dubbed the American Bible. --Olson, Ray Copyright 2009 Booklist.
SUBJECT:
| Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949. Gone with the wind |
| Gone with the wind (Motion picture) |
BIBSUMMARY:
Haskell keeps both novel and movie at hand, moving from one to the other, comparing and distinguishing what Margaret Mitchell expresses from what obsessive producer David O. Selznick, directors George Cukor and Victor Fleming, screenplaywrights Sidney Howard and a host of fixers (including Ben Hecht and Scott Fitzgerald), and actors Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Hattie McDaniel, and others convey. She emphasizes the contributions of Selznick, Leigh, and in an entire chapter, Mitchell, drawing heavily and analytically on existing biographies, the literature of women and the Civil War, Civil War films (especially Birth of a Nation and Jezebel), and film criticism to such engaging effect as to not just revisit GWTW but to revive and intensify the enduring fascination of what Selznick dubbed the American Bible. --Olson, Ray Copyright 2009 Booklist.