Gone with the Wind (film) have been explicitly referenced, satirized, dramatized and analyzed on numerous occasions across a range of media, from contemporaneous works such as "Second Fiddle"—a 1939 film spoofing the "search for Scarlett"—to current television shows, such as "The Simpsons". "The Scarlett O'Hara War" (a 1980 television dramatization of the casting of Scarlett), "Moonlight and Magnolias" (a 2007 play by Ron Hutchinson that dramatizes Ben Hecht's five-day re-write of the script), and "Went with the Wind!" (a sketch on "The Carol Burnett Show" that parodied the film in the aftermath of its television debut in 1976) are among the more noteworthy examples of
Gone with the Wind (novel) "Gone With the Wind", Margaret Mitchell hesitated to blame black 'insolence' during Reconstruction solely on 'mean niggers', of which, she said, there were few even in slavery days." Critics say that Mitchell downplayed the violent role of the Ku Klux Klan and their abuse of freedmen. Author Pat Conroy, in his preface to a later edition of the novel, describes Mitchell's portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as having "the same romanticized role it had in "The Birth of a Nation" and appears to be a benign combination of the Elks Club and a men's equestrian society". Regarding the historical