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    'Gone With the Wind' Adds Video About Racist Treatments Received by Hattie McDaniel at Oscars

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    HBO has added a new accompanying video titled ‘Hattie McDaniel: What a Character!’ to bring back the controversial movie adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel.
    Jun 26, 2020
    AceShowbiz – “Gone With the Wind” has returned to the HBO Max streaming platform alongside additional disclaimers critiquing its depiction of race and slavery.
    The 1939 movie adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel about the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era South won eight Academy Awards, including a Best Supporting Actress gong for Hattie McDaniel, who was the first black person to be nominated for and win an Oscar.
    However, it was pulled from the service earlier this month, June 2020 amid global anti-racism protests and a Los Angeles Times op-ed by Oscar-winner John Ridley, detailing the “racial prejudices” depicted and accepted in the movie.
    The controversial classic was made available again on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 alongside newly added videos discussing its place in America’s cultural history and idealisation of the post-Civil War south despite its brutal racism.
    One of the videos features the host of TCM’s “Silent Sunday Nights”, Jacqueline Stewart, discussing its cultural advocacy for white supremacy.
    “Gone with the Wind, with its landmark production values, signature scenes and iconic characters has shaped the way generations have pictured slavery and the reconstruction period that followed,” Stewart, a professor at the University of Chicago’s Department of Cinema and Media Studies says, according to Deadline.
    “It is not only a major document of Hollywood’s racist practices of the past, but also an enduring work of popular culture that speaks directly to the racial inequalities that persist in media and society today.”
    Another accompanying video is titled “Hattie McDaniel: What a Character!”, which details McDaniel’s career, as well as the prejudice she faced when forced to sit at the back of the Coconut Grove Restaurant of the Ambassador Hotel before receiving her prize at the 12th Academy Awards.
    Also included is a 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival panel moderated by Donald Bogle and titled “The Complicated Legacy of Gone With the Wind”.

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      'Gone With the Wind' to Make HBO Max Return With Black Scholar Introduction

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      African American cinema and media studies professor Jacqueline Stewart explains in her op-ed for CNN why people ‘can’t turn away’ from the 1939 movie adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel.
      Jun 15, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Hollywood classic “Gone with the Wind” is to return to the HBO Max streaming platform after being temporarily removed due to the “racial prejudices” on display in the movie.
      The 1939 movie adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel about the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era South won eight Academy Awards, including a best supporting actress gong for Hattie McDaniel, who was the first black person to be nominated for and win an Oscar.
      While the controversial film was removed from the on-demand service in the wake of global protests supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, after African-American George Floyd was killed at the hands of Minnesota police officers last month, it has since been announced “Gone with the Wind” will return with a new introduction by Jacqueline Stewart, host of “Silent Sunday Nights” on Turner Classic Movies and professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago in Illinois.
      In an op-ed posted on CNN on Saturday, June 13, Stewart explained why people “can’t turn away” from the once-acclaimed drama.
      “HBO Max will bring ‘Gone with the Wind’ back to its line-up, and when it appears, I will provide an introduction placing the film in its multiple historical contexts,” Stewart shared. “For me, this is an opportunity to think about what classic films can teach us. Right now, people are turning to movies for racial re-education, and the top-selling books on Amazon are about anti-racism and racial inequality.”
      “If people are really doing their homework, we may be poised to have our most informed, honest and productive national conversations yet about Black lives on screen and off.”
      A date for the movie’s return to the platform has yet to be announced.

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      'Gone With the Wind' Pulled From HBO Max Over Display of Racial Prejudices

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      The temporary removal move has been taken in the wake of the protests against racial injustice due to George Floyd’s death, and an op-ed written by ’12 Years a Slave’ screenwriter John Ridley.
      Jun 11, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Hollywood classic “Gone with the Wind” has been temporarily removed from the HBO Max streaming platform due to the “racial prejudices” on display in the movie.
      The 1939 movie adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel about the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era South won eight Academy Awards, including a best supporting actress gong for Hattie McDaniel, who was the first black person to be nominated for and win an Oscar.
      However, in the wake of the protests against racial injustice following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minnesota, Minneapolis police, and an L.A. Times op-ed written by “12 Years a Slave” screenwriter John Ridley calling for its removal – the film was taken off HBO Max on Tuesday, June 09.
      Explaining the decision in a statement to Variety, an HBO Max spokesperson said the removal was temporary but that when the film returned it would be alongside a disclaimer explaining its less enlightened attitudes to race.
      ” ‘Gone with the Wind’ is a product of its time and depicts some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that have, unfortunately, been commonplace in American society,” they said. “These racist depictions were wrong then and are wrong today, and we felt that to keep this title up without an explanation and a denouncement of those depictions would be irresponsible.”
      They went on to say, “it will return with a discussion of its historical context and a denouncement of those very depictions, but will be presented as it was originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed. If we are to create a more just, equitable and inclusive future, we must first acknowledge and understand our history.”
      The film, which details the love story of Scarlett O’Hara, played by Vivienne Leigh, the daughter of a plantation owner, and wealthy gambler Rhett Butler, portrayed by Clark Gable, broke box office records and stormed the Oscars upon its release and has long been a regular on lists of the greatest ever movies. However, in recent years its depiction of slavery and Black people has come in for criticism.

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