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Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: The Everyday Southern Epic
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (GWTW) has long been termed an "epic" of the American South. The implications of that term, however, have not been fully investigated, particularly as they concern generic criteria. How can we assign the generic characteristics of the epic narrative to GWTW? …
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Gone with the Wind: What Composers Learn from Creating Music for Young Musicians
… and post-secondary institutions (Andrews & Carruthers, 2004; Carruthers, 2000). This is primarily because the music of modern professional composers is inaccessible to students (Andrews, 2004; Bowden, 2010). In other words, composers are trained in such a way that their pieces are only playable …
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Kinship: Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind and the Irish Big House Genre
… dismissed Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel Gone with the Wind as a serious work of literature. Although various references to Irish culture permeate Gone with the Wind, the novel has not been compared to any Irish literature or mythology. This thesis compares Gone with the Wind with Irish …
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The Wind Goes On: 'Gone with the Wind' and the Imagined Geographies of the American South
Published in 1936, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind achieved massive literary success before being adapted into a motion picture of the same name in 1939. The novel and film have amassed numerous accolades, inspired frequent reissues, and sustained mass popularity. This dissertation analyzes …
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America's Lollipop Licking Tease: The Eroticization of the Female Child in 1930s Film
This dissertation examines the eroticization of female children in film during the 1930s as a mechanism for concealing troubling realities of the Great Depression in the United States. The repressed sexuality embedded in the plots of Post Hays Code movies featuring Shirley Temple and characters …
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Blood at the Root: Of Myth, Food, Race, and Landscape in the American South
To be added later.
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Blood at the Root: Of Myth, Food, Race, and Landscape in the American South
To be added later.
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Maternal Melodrama and Modern Horror: Genre Hybridity in Southern Film
This dissertation establishes the groundwork for a new genre of Southern film – a hybrid genre that I call Southern maternal horror. By integrating key elements from the genres of maternal melodrama and modern horror into Southern narratives, Southern maternal horror uses the central ambivalence …
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Reel wars: Cold War, civil rights and Hollywood's changing interpretation of the American Civil War 1945-75
… sense of racial and national identity in the period from 1945 to the mid 1970s as refracted through Hollywood's representation of the American Civil War - a powerful event in American memory which still resonates today. Civil War films have been the subject of study by film studies …
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The Influence of Literacy on the Lives of Twentieth Century Southern Female Minority Figures
<p>The American South has long been a region associated with myth and fantasy; in popular culture especially, the region is consistently tied to skewed notions of the antebellum South that include images of large plantation homes, women in hoop skirts, and magnolia trees that manifest in television …
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One another: Women's friendship and the matrix of becoming in twentieth century American novels
For many women friendship is, alongside the romantic and familial, one of the social pillars upon which their life is built. Women writers, culturally encouraged to promote the love plot and the domestic sphere, still integrate women's friendship into fiction throughout space and time. Due to its …
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One another: Women's friendship and the matrix of becoming in twentieth century American novels
For many women friendship is, alongside the romantic and familial, one of the social pillars upon which their life is built. Women writers, culturally encouraged to promote the love plot and the domestic sphere, still integrate women's friendship into fiction throughout space and time. Due to its …