JHU 464.306
Gone with the Wind: Stereotypes of Race and Gender in America, 1852-1939
(I,M,W)
Dr. Papenfuse
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COURSE SUMMARY
The popular novel and its translation to film are examined as a means of
understanding attitudes towards race and gender in American culture from
the 1850s to the present. Readings and films include:
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Harriet Beecher Stowe- Uncle Tom's Cabin as a novel
(1852), a play (on tour in various forms from the 1850s through the
1930s), early films (1903 & 1914), and a excerpts from
a 1987 film
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a document packet relating to the imprisonment
of Samuel Green for possessing and reading a copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin,
MSA SC 2208
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Thomas Dixon- The Clansman (1905) and the film version, Birth
of a Nation (1915), and
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Margaret Mitchell- the novel (1936), and the film, (1939), of Gone With
the Wind
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Richard Harwell (ed.)- Gone With The Wind as Book and Film (1992)
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A Critic At Large: A Study in Scarlett by Claudia Roth Pierpont
from The New Yorker, August 31, 1992, pp. 87-103 .
REQUIREMENTS
This is a writing intensive course (I&W) that consists of three written
assignments: completing two book/film review essays of approximately five
typed pages each, and a take-home final of approximately ten typed pages.
Each of the book/film essays will require some additional library research
as a fulfillment of the (W) requirement. The first essay should concentrate
on a comparison of the racial and gender stereotypes as portrayed in the
novel and the film versions of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin,
incorporating class discussions, as well as any contemporary
commentary you can find about either. The second essay should follow
the same pattern as the first and should be based upon the second reading
and viewing assignments. In this essay you should cover race and gender
in the writing of Reverend Thomas Dixon, and the film version of his novels
by D.W. Griffith, incorporating class discussion and contemporary commentary.
The take-home final will be a reflective essay on your reaction to the
thesis and implications of the final reading assignment: `A Study In Scarlett,'
by Claudia Roth Pierpont, incorporating your reading, viewing, and our
class discussion of Gone With The Wind.
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