
Published online:
14 September 2011
Published in print:
27 October 2006
Online ISBN:
9780813134765
Print ISBN:
9780813124063
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Margaret Mitchell’s Revisionist Southern History Margaret Mitchell’s Revisionist Southern History
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Southern Women in Hollywood, 1930–1936 Southern Women in Hollywood, 1930–1936
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Jezebels and Rebels Jezebels and Rebels
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The Black Irish of Gone with the Wind The Black Irish of Gone with the Wind
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Ignoring Reconstruction Ignoring Reconstruction
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Chapter
5 Jezebels and Rebels, Cavaliers and Compromise, 1930–1939
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Pages
140–165
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Published:October 2006
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Smyth, J.E., 'Jezebels and Rebels, Cavaliers and Compromise, 1930–1939', Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane (Lexington, KY , 2006; online edn, Kentucky Scholarship Online, 14 Sept. 2011), https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813124063.003.0006, accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter examines the historical films produced in Hollywood during the period from 1930 to 1939 which focused on the American Civil War and the Reconstruction. The most notable of these types of films are William Wyler's Jezebel and Victor Fleming's Gone with the Wind which was based on Margaret Mitchell's award-winning novel of the same title. This chapter discusses the treatment of American history in these films.
Keywords:
historical films, U.S., American Civil War, Reconstruction, Jezebel, William Wyler, Gone with the Wind, Victor Fleming, Margaret Mitchell, southern women
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Film
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