Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited

in brief Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited By Molly Haskell Yale University Press, $24

It turns out we still do give a damn. Seventy years after Gone with the Wind firmly fixed our ideal of the Southern belle in the reflection of Vivien Leigh's flirtatious green eyes, David O. Selznick's epic adapta- tion of Margaret Mitchell's bestseller hasn't lost Its grip on our collective consciousness.

Molly Haskell's Frankly, My Dear offers the sort of scholarly analysis and expert insight rarely accorded either the book or...