‘I cringe at the slave portions’: How fans of Gone with the Wind negotiate anti-racist criticism

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-20 DOI:10.1177/13678779231163605

Marcel van den Haak, L. Plate, Selina Bick

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Abstract

In recent years an increasing number of cultural products have come under fire for moral or political reasons, such as racist or sexist content, in the mainstream (White) public sphere. An outstanding example is the classic 1939 film Gone with the Wind (GWTW), which is loved by many but also strongly criticised for glorifying the American Antebellum South and ignoring the inhumanity of slavery. This case study explores how fans of the film (and the novel on which it was based) negotiate their appreciation of GWTW and these controversial issues. Using an open-ended survey and follow-up interviews, we explore two dominant narratives among the film's predominantly White fans: one that fiercely defends the film against criticism and one that expresses increased feelings of ambivalence and awkwardness. Thus, we add a more self-reflective and dynamic approach to scholarship on cultural taste, audience reception, and fan studies.

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《乱世佳人》的粉丝是如何应对反种族主义批评的:“我对奴隶部分感到畏缩”

近年来，越来越多的文化产品在主流(白人)公共领域因道德或政治原因而受到抨击，例如种族主义或性别歧视的内容。一个突出的例子是1939年的经典电影《乱世佳人》(Gone with the Wind, GWTW)，这部电影受到许多人的喜爱，但也受到强烈批评，因为它美化了美国南北战争前的南方，忽视了奴隶制的不人道。本案例研究探讨了这部电影(以及原著小说)的粉丝们是如何就他们对《长城》和这些有争议的问题的欣赏进行协商的。通过开放式调查和后续访谈，我们探索了电影主要白人粉丝中的两种主要叙事:一种是激烈地为电影辩护，反对批评，另一种是表达越来越多的矛盾心理和尴尬感。因此，我们在文化品味、观众接受和粉丝研究方面增加了一种更自我反思和动态的方法。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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4.20

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9.50%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Cultural Studies is committed to rethinking cultural practices, processes, texts and infrastructures beyond traditional national frameworks and regional biases. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. Dedicated to theoretical and methodological innovation in cultural research, the journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences and more. International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field. International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.