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'''''Gone with the Wind''''' ('''GWTW''') is a novel portraying life in the southern [[United States]], during the [[Civil War]] and [[Reconstruction]], written by [[Margaret Mitchell]], and originally published in 1936.  The 1000 page runaway best-seller tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, a young woman on a Georgia plantation who tries to keep control of her land and find love while facing war, defeat and poverty.  It won the Pulitzer prize for fiction and remains a classic in the history of the self identity of [[The South]]. The book has sold 28 million copies worldwide.

'''''Gone with the Wind''''' ('''GWTW''') is a novel portraying life in the southern [[United States]], during the [[Civil War]] and [[Reconstruction]], written by [[Margaret Mitchell]], and originally published in 1936.  The 1000 page runaway best-seller tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, a young woman on a Georgia plantation who tries to keep control of her land and find love while facing war, defeat and poverty.  It won the Pulitzer prize for fiction and remains a classic in the history of the self identity of [[The South]]. The book has sold 28 million copies worldwide. ''Gone with the Wind'' is Mitchell's only literary output.

[[File:Gwtw2.jpg|thumb|300px|<center>'''Advertising poster for ''Gone with the Wind'''''</center>]]

[[File:Gwtw2.jpg|thumb|300px|<center>'''Advertising poster for ''Gone with the Wind'''''</center>]]

''Gone with the Wind'' was made into a [[Technicolor]] film in 1939, starring [[Vivian Leigh]] and [[Clark Gable]]; the directing credit went to [[Victor Fleming]], who, coincidentally, was credited with the studio's ''other'' 1939 blockbuster, [[The Wizard of Oz]]. It was [[Hollywood]]'s largest and most expensive production to date, with a huge cast, massive sets (the fake city of Atlanta was burned down). [[David O. Selznick]], the legendary, manic M-G-M producer who dominated every aspect of the film, fired the first director [[George Cukor]], and Fleming finished up.  It won eight Academy Awards, and is the most-seen and highest grossing film of all time, (based on 1940 dollars).

''Gone with the Wind'' was made into a [[Technicolor]] film in 1939, starring the English actress [[Vivian Leigh]] and the American actor [[Clark Gable]]; the directing credit went to [[Victor Fleming]], who, coincidentally, was credited with the studio's ''other'' 1939 blockbuster, [[The Wizard of Oz]]. It was [[Hollywood]]'s largest and most expensive production to date, with a huge cast, massive sets (the fake city of Atlanta was burned down). [[David O. Selznick]], the legendary, manic M-G-M producer who dominated every aspect of the film, fired the first director [[George Cukor]], and Fleming finished up.  It won eight Academy Awards, and is the most-seen and highest grossing film of all time, (based on 1940 dollars).

The book and film do not attack slaveholders, the slaves appear to be too happy and the freedmen too angry, so [[Neoabolitionist]] critics have been hostile.  In fact Hollywood gave black actors the best parts they had ever received and Hattie McDaniel (1895-1952) with her performance as Mammy, the sassy, independently minded, and opinionated maid who is never slavish, became the first black actor to win an Oscar.

The book and film do not attack slaveholders, the slaves appear to be too happy and the freedmen too angry, so [[Neoabolitionist]] critics have been hostile.  In fact Hollywood gave black actors the best parts they had ever received and Hattie McDaniel (1895-1952) with her performance as Mammy, the sassy, independently minded, and opinionated maid who is never slavish, became the first black actor to win an Oscar.