{"product_id":"9781844578726","title":"Gone With the Wind","description":"\u003cem\u003eGone With the Wind\u003c\/em\u003e (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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eArguing 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 \u003cem\u003eRoots\u003c\/em\u003e (1977) to \u003cem\u003e12 Years a Slave\u003c\/em\u003e (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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis special edition features original cover artwork by HelloVon.","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135867437296,"sku":"9781844578726","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781844578726_p0.jpg?v=1763744140","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781844578726","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}