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Abstract

The north american film Gone with the Wind debuted in December 1939, completing 80 years of its release last year. Considered one of the cinema classics, its scenario is the American Civil War, which culminated in the abolition of slavery, and the period of subsequent reconstruction. The purpose of this article is to analyze one of the striking - and apparently incongruous - features of the work: a 233-minute film, adapted of a book that has more than a thousand pages, which backdrop is a conflict caused by the maintenance or not of the slavery, completely abstains from the discussion on the abolition of slavery in the USA and on a racial issue arising from the liberation of the enslaved.