Event

GONE WITH THE WIND

Guest Speaker: Film critic & Author MOLLY HASKELL plus Special
GWTW intermission lunch in the Cinema's new patio garden.
Sunday, June 13 at 2pm
Members: $10 / Public: $15 Includes Film, Discussion, & Book Signing (Lunch $10 extra)
Tickets available now at CAC Box Office, CinemaArtsCentre.org, or by calling 800-838-3006

Molly Haskell's 1973 study From Reverence to Rape established her reputation as an insightful critic of women's roles in the
U.S. A veteran film critic and author Molly Haskell will appear at the Cinema to discuss her richly endowed critical study of
the renowned 1939 classic Hollywood film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's then best-selling historic novel about the fate of a
plantation owner's family in the Civil War era. Haskell's historical overview takes on the ways in which Hollywood and cinema has
stereotyped women, but also singles out those exceptions where women broke the stereotypical mold. Vivien Leigh's Oscar Best
Actress Award as the tough willed Scarlet O'Hara broke the mold of the cinema's stereotypical passive, fainthearted suffering
woman. She holds her own against Clark Gable's macho Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn. Haskell offers sharp insights into the
male directors George Cukor, Victor Fleming and producer David O'Selznick, whose wrangling reflected racist America's stereotypical
views of the folks imprisoned in the slavery system. Molly Haskell takes them all on in her scintillating examination of this 1930's novel and
film: FRANKLY MY DEAR: "Gone With the Wind" Revisited. USA, 1939, 238min.