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Gone with the Wind
June 17, 2020
Drew Magary
The Gentlemanly Hater’s Guide to Gone With the Wind
The Hollywood classic is a soap opera and a war movie smashed together. It’s also really, really racist.
February 29, 2016
Mikaela Lefrak
As we talk about diversity at the Oscars, don’t forget what Hattie McDaniel went through in 1940.
December 11, 2015
Tom Rice
How the Ku Klux Klan Used Cinema to Become a Force in America
March 6, 2010
David Thomson
The Mogul Empire
January 25, 1975
Roger Rosenblatt
Reconsidering Gone With the Wind
Looking back at the classic tale of Scarlett O'Hara and the American South.
January 8, 1940
Otis Ferguson
Out to Lunch
Will the New Republic's film critic ever review "Gone with the Wind"?
September 16, 1936
Malcolm Cowley
Going With the Wind
A review of Margaret Mitchell's bestseller

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