GoneWithTheWind returns to HBOMax with some poignant historical context “about the film’s handling of the topic of slavery, and its treatment of Black characters”
“very soon,” the controversial 1939 film has indeed returned – with some poignant historical context “about the film’s handling of the topic of slavery, and its treatment of Black characters.”, the film set in the Antebellum Sout now comes with three new videos that are part disclaimer and part re-evaluation of the Academy Award winner.
Deftly, the University of Chicago’s Department of Cinema and Media Studies professor Stewart asserts in her nearly five-minute video that the David O. Selznick-produced film intentionally depicts “the Antebellum South as a world of grace and beauty without acknowledging the brutalities of the system of chattel slavery upon which this world is based.
“It is not only a major document of Hollywood’s racist practices of the past, but also an enduring work of popular culture that speaks directly to the racial inequalities that persist in media and society today,” Stewart said of the Best Picture winner. Often grotesquely depicting slaves pretty pleased with their status and unflinchingly loyal to their white owners, this latest turn and return for the long rightly lambasted
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