One of the most successful books ever published and the basis of one of the most popular and highly praised Hollywood films, Gone with the Wind has entered world culture in a way that few other stories have. The book was published in June 1936; the film premiered on December 15, 1939. The book has sold 25 million copies, has been translated into twenty-seven languages, and won the 1936 Pulitzer Prize. The film received eight Oscars and has been called the greatest movie ever made. Everyone has heard of GWTW. Most of us have seen the movie or read the novel. In this entertaining and informative book, Helen Taylor is the first to seek reasons for the film/novel's success among viewers/readers. The author asked GWTW fans to relate their experiences with the works, to explain their fascination with the story, to describe the impact GWTW has had on their lives. The results are astonishing and illuminating. In the United States and England, where the author conducted her research, women have to a remarkable degree claimed the story Margaret Mitchell wrote as their own. They name their children Rhett and Scarlett. They see in the lives of the men and women of GWTW their own lives, their own restlessness, their own aspirations for something better than marriage and motherhood. Helen Taylor not only explains the enduring appeal of the work, but also identifies different kinds of response at particular historical moments (especially World War II) and through the past five decades by women of different classes, races, and generations. The author also looks at the contemporary implications of the work's political conservatism, racism, and--paradoxically--feminism. The result is a book that is sophisticated, accessible, and revealing. Scarlett's Women is a book for eery fan, and for all students of film and popular culture.
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A look at the mythology created by GWTW in England.,
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This is an interesting examination of how fascination with Gone With the Wind has affected the lives of women in Britain. But the book has accurate and enlightening biographies of the stars as well, and an examination of issues presented by both film and novel. A good read for anyone interested in this novel as a phenomenon of pop culture.
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As a historian who just finished a research paper on Gone with the Wind's popularity, this book is more useful and interesting for this authors LOVE of this book/film than her scholarship. Taylor's evidence, interpretation, and other information is clearly biased.
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Page turner,
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Very good book. My house fell to to the wayside until I finished. I foundout much that I didn't know about Scarlett & Margaret Mitchell.
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Margaret Mitchell, Scarlett O'Hara, Vivien Leigh, Rhett Butler, Clark Gable, David Selznick, Old South, New Orleans, Bette Davis, Anne Edwards, United States, Ashley Wilkes, Alexandra Ripley, Belle Watling, Bonnie Blue, Leslie Howard, Uncle Tom's Cabin, American South, Ellen O'Hara, Martin Luther King, New York, Peggy Mitchell, Stone Mountain, Susan Myrick, Atlanta Journal New!
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Margaret Mitchell, Scarlett O'Hara, Vivien Leigh, Rhett Butler, Clark Gable, David Selznick, Old South, New Orleans, Bette Davis, Anne Edwards, United States, Ashley Wilkes, Alexandra Ripley, Belle Watling, Bonnie Blue, Leslie Howard, Uncle Tom's Cabin, American South, Ellen O'Hara, Martin Luther King, New York, Peggy Mitchell, Stone Mountain, Susan Myrick, Atlanta Journal New!
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- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell on 39 pages
- Gone with the Wind as Book and Film by Richard Harwell on 8 pages
- Gone With the Wind: The Definitive Illustrated History of the Book, the Movie and the Legend by Herb Bridges on 6 pages
- Recasting: Gone with the Wind in American Culture by Darden A. Pyron on 5 pages
- Pictorial History of Gone with the Wind by Gerald Gardner on 5 pages
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