Gone with the Wind

More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war—why it was fought, what was won, what was lost—not from books but from movies, television, and other popular media. In an engaging and accessible survey, renowned Civil War historian Gary ...more

This encyclopedia, a ten-year project involving more than 800 scholars and writers, offers an extraordinary portrait of one of the nation's richest cultural landscapes. 349 illustrations, 15 maps. ...more

Most books on film adaptation -- the relation between films and their literary sources -- focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films and canonical novels. This volume identifies and investigates a far wider array of problems posed by the process of adaptation. Beginning with an examination ...more

Like Dorothy waking up over the rainbow in the Land of Oz, Hollywood discovered a vivid new world of color in the 1930s. The introduction of three-color Technicolor technology in 1932 gave filmmakers a powerful tool with which to guide viewers' attention, punctuate turning points, and express emotional subtext. Although ...more

This guidebook takes visitors to the sights and scenes in Atlanta that recall Margaret Mitchell and her masterpiece. ...more

Keepsake book was produced to commemorate the exhibition at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, May 3, 2001 - May 3, 2002. ...more