Rhett and Scarlett recast for a feminist manifesto
Frankly, My Dear: Gone With The Wind Revisited By Molly Haskell Yale University Press, 244pp, $49.95 Reviewed by Tom Ryan FOR film critic Molly Haskell, Gone With The Wind has long been a subject worth revisiting and the vexed question of its sexual politics has been the major reason. In From Reverence To Rape, her groundbreaking book about the depiction of women in the movies from the 1930s onwards, first published in 1974, she perceptively identifies Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett O’Hara as “the thirties’ ante-bellum version of the flapper, the woman who defies all conventions except the sexual ones” and who, with her business acumen, represents “a forerunner of the career woman”. More…
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