‘Gone With the Wind’: Redefining Masculinity, Reframing Femininity

The famed movie of Hollywood’s Golden Age takes a look at the true character of real men and real women.

Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) is obsessed with Tara and herself, in "Gone With the Wind." MGM/MovieStillsDB

G | 3h 58min | Drama | 1940

Based on Margaret Mitchell’s novel, the Oscar-winning Civil War romance “Gone with the Wind” (GWTW), a movie about love for home and country, redefines what it means to be manly, womanly, and deeper still, what it means to love in the first place.