Frankly, my dear :
Gone with the wind revisited /
Molly Haskell.
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Summary: | 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. |
In collection: | Stephen Griffin Collection |
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
©2009.
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Series: | Icons of America.
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Notes: | Series statement from back jacket flap. Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-231) and index. Physical description: xiii, 244 pages, [10] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm. more |
ISBN: | 9780300117523 0300117523 9780300164374 0300164378 |