All in the frame: why we shouldn’t cancel problematic art
Should old films that glorify racism be, well, gone with the wind? Or should we keep them? In this time of global reappraisal of our attitudes to race and racism, perhaps it‘s better to keep such flawed works of popular culture, contextualise them and learn from them
When the news not so much broke but stomped its way across the world that HBO Max would temporarily remove Victor Fleming’s antebellum fantasy Gone With the Wind from its streaming service, the internet responded with fury, commentary and the usual hysterics. But was this outrage justified? Should a film like Gone With the Wind be removed completely?
Perhaps the issue of censorship, art and the way we view it is a much more complex beast than simply banning material we disagree with. In the case of Gone With the Wind and the countless others like it, is ...
