![]() ![]() The task of adapting the novel of a thousand pages in a film was complex and resulted in a limitation of the content that was to be transferred. In other cases, it could be the result of a deliberate artistic action in order to make the content of the film more melodramatic. ![]() Alterations of the historical information presented by the filmmakers could be the result of censorship or lack of recognition of the sensitivity towards understanding the war. As a result, the film can be seen as a performance within a performance. While the novel constitutes (almost a personal) representation of the Civil War era seen by Margaret Mitchell, told from the point of view of a Southerner, the film omits numerous historical details and interprets some of them individually, making it an adaptation of the novel, and not of the history. Although historical information gathered by the author happens to be amazingly abundant and accurate, the novel has been neglected in the field of historical novels. However, the film seems to have overshadowed the book, as not much research has been done on the latter so far. The novel and its film adaptation by Victor Fleming are two American masterpieces and both have been objects of numerous research. Gone With the Wind, a bestseller written in 1936 by Margaret Mitchell is a novel and unique chronicle narrating the events of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction Period, presented from the Southern point of view. ![]()
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