History Between Books And Movies Gone With The Wind 1939

Résumé: This dissertation investigates the position of movies in depicting history. The American cinema underwent systematic improvements. In the 1930's, many changes took place at the level of art, journalism, literature, entertainment and media. By the advent of talking picture and the Technicolor process, movies became the pillar of popular culture through introducing and dramatizing different events and historical experiences. Besides, the world of filmmaking became the first entertainment industry in America. Many historians who investigated this subject demonstrated that, as a new medium and visual media, cinema had the power to define and reflect history and the popular memory. Accordingly, this dissertation attempts to shed light on the interrelatedness between history, especially the American Civil War and Hollywood, the prominent center of the U.S. movie industry. Also, it attempts to explore how the civil war era of the American history-as described in the novel Gone with the Wind-is portrayed in the movie that based on the same novel. Finally, it works to examine the movie adaptation and pondering its status with its literary source.

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