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Gone with the Wind:
The High Water Mark for the Lost Cause
              Dr. Bruce Clary
          Thursday, January 3, 2013
The Novel
• Sold 1.7
  million copies
  in 1st year
• 1937 Pulitzer
  Prize winner
The Film
•Northwest Ordinance
 Adjusted for inflation, still
          1787
 the largest grossing film ever
•west ofthe territory of movie
•Established forefront
 On the
 Appalachians Technicolor,
 making: and
 gorgeous musical soundtrack
 north of the Ohio
  River as free territory
Slavery a benign institution
Film moderates novel’s overt racism
•N-word omitted
•The most malign racist insults and
 stereotypes omitted
•KKK never mentioned
But…
•benign view of slavery emphasized
•stock characters and less offensive
  stereotypes retained
Mammy (Hatty McDaniel)
The Film
•Adjusted for inflation, still
 the largest grossing film ever
•On the forefront of movie
 making: Technicolor,
 gorgeous musical soundtrack




Big Sam
The Film
•Adjusted for inflation, still
 the largest grossing film ever
•On the forefront of movie
 making: Technicolor,
 gorgeous musical soundtrack




Pork
The Film
•Adjusted for inflation, still
 the largest grossing film ever
•On the forefront of movie
 making: Technicolor,
 gorgeous musical soundtrack




Prissy
The Film
•Adjusted for inflation, still
 the largest grossing film ever
•On the forefront of movie
 making: Technicolor,
 gorgeous musical soundtrack
Rhett – Not a Southern gentleman
Scarlett – Not a Southern lady
Honor
Suffering South   retained
Honor
retained
Honor
retained
Honor
retained
Honor
retained
Honor
“Another invader…”   retained
Gone with the Wind: High Water Mark of the Lost Cause

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