Category: Gone With The Wind

Coming of age stories often come in many forms and can sometimes not even be recognized as such until the very end. Gone With the Wind (1939) is one of these stories because of the way that it acts as Scarlett OHaras (Vivien Leigh) coming of age story that is disguised as a Civil War…

Lets go back almost 80 years during the new beginnings of Hollywood film history, it is now the year 1939 and a new film titled Gone with the Wind has just been released where the Production of Code Administration has required that producer, David O. Selznick defends the use of profanity in his film… lets…

Many analyses of blackness on screen, and in particular of black spectatorship, take from W.E.B. Du Boiss concept of double-consciousness (>). The most notable works being Jane Gainess Fire and Desire and Thomas Crippss Slow Fade to Black. The concept suggests that black identity is formed from a truce between the dominant cultures definitions of…

In the United States, there has been a series of entertainment mediums since its conception. As technology and ideas grow and evolve, more things are created. Thus in the boom of industry, the technology in entertainment did not fall behind. As the United States rolled into recovery from WWI the film industry kept a steady…