BFI Classics: Gone With The Wind - Softcover

BFI Classics: Gone With The Wind - SoftcoverGone With the Wind (1939), the highest grossing film of all time, is sometimes dismissed as a reactionary popular romance. Interrogating such dismissals and hailing the film's vast ambition and astonishing production values, Helen Taylor explores its influence on film makers, popularity with generations of audiences, and impact on everyday language. Arguing that the film, with its disturbing racial politics, set the agenda for more than a century's

• Gone With the Wind (1939), the highest-grossing film of all time, is sometimes dismissed as a reactionary popular romance.

• Interrogating such dismissals and hailing the film's vast ambition and astonishing production values, Helen Taylor explores its influence on film-makers, popularity with generations of audiences, and impact on everyday language. Arguing that the film, with its disturbing racial politics, set the agenda for more than a century's film representations of slavery and the Civil War, Taylor shows how it has been engaged with and challenged since - from the mini-series Roots (1977) to 12 Years a Slave (2014). 

• Drawing on new archival material about Vivien Leigh and seventy-five years of scholarship and popular culture references, Taylor makes the case for the film's classic status 

This BFI Film Classics special edition features original cover artwork by HelloVon.

Pages: 104 

Published: November 2015

Size (cm): 14 x 19 x 0.5

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