The Orange County Regional History Center is hosting an interactive program in conjunction with their Gone With the Wind: Reel to Real exhibition. Please share this highly anticipated event with your colleagues and students during the fall term.
 
The OCRHC is hosting a panel discussion called “Straight Talk – A Reel to Real Discussion about Gone With the Wind and Its Influence on Pop Culture”
 
Join moderator Dr. Robert Cassanello (UCF) and panelists Julian Chambliss (Rollins College), Barbara Thompson (UCF Office of Diversity and Inclusion), Maylen Dominguez (Full Sail University), and Sharon Fletcher Jones (Central Florida Association of Black Journalists) for a discussion about the stereotypes portrayed in the 1939 “Gone With the Wind” film, and how popular culture continues to affect our impression of different types of people and cultures.
Topics of discussion will include:  
•              Scarlett O’Hara, the film’s protagonist, a true Southern Belle
•              Rhett Butler, a dashing and outcast bachelor who is “not the marrying kind”
•              Mammy, Scarlett’s nurse and “head woman of the plantation”
•              African American roles and perceptions in the movie industry