Gone With the Wind
Anti-Nuclear Movement
This poster, which parodies the iconic promotional poster for the epic romantic 1939 neo-Confederate film, “Gone With the Wind,” starring Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh, features conservative U.S. President, Ronald Reagan, and conservative British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, in a passionate embrace. The poster pokes fun at the cozy relationship between the two politicians and their advocacy for a renewed and heightened Cold War with the Soviet Union, particularly an escalation in nuclear weapons.
This poster, which parodies the iconic promotional poster for the epic romantic 1939 neo-Confederate film, “Gone With the Wind,” starring Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh as tragic white southerners, Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara, features conservative U.S. President, Ronald Reagan, and conservative British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, in a passionate embrace. The poster pokes fun at the cozy relationship between the two politicians and their advocacy for a renewed and heightened Cold War with the Soviet Union, particularly an escalation in nuclear weapons.
Text on the poster reads: "The Film To End All Films/Most Explosive Love Story Ever/Milton Freedman In Association With Pentagon Productions Presents 'Gone With The Wind'/Screenplay By Kid Joseph/Directed by Hank Kissinger/Music By Eddy Heath." Caption below image reads "She Promised To Follow Him To The End Of The Earth. He Promised To Organize It!" And, “Now Showing World Wide.” Small printed notation at the bottom also says, “An IMF Picture” and “Right Rank Inc.” In the lower left corner, it reads "Bob Light/John Houston For Socialist Worker."
design by Bob Light and John Houston, printed by East End Offset Ltd in the U.K., and published by Socialist Workers Party
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1981
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Ronald Reagan for Fuehrer
Electoral Politics and Anti-War Movement
Former Hollywood actor, Ronald Reagan, launched his political career in 1966 by targeting University of California-Berkeley's student peace activists, professors, and, to a great extent, the University of California itself. In his successful campaign for governor that year, Reagan championed traditional authority and emphasized two themes, anti-government promises "to send the welfare bums back to work" and “law and order” rhetoric, including assurances "to clean up the mess at Berkeley," where civil rights activism, the Free Speech Movement and growing anti-war demonstrations had roiled the campus and brought national attention the previous year. Reagan strongly attacked student leaders, like Mario Savio, as well as UC President, Clark Kerr, who Reagan perceived as too lenient on campus demonstrators. Once in office after defeating Democratic incumbent, Pat Brown, Reagan directed the UC Board of Regents to dismiss Kerr from his position, cementing a turbulent relationship with the state’s leading institution of higher education, as well as Regan’s reputation as a key conservative opponent of the emerging New Left.
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Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1966
Button
Physical Object
No Reagan
Electoral Politics
In 1966, Ronald Reagan ran successfully as the Governor of California on the Republican ticket. Reagan’s governorship between the years 1967 to 1975 was met with reaction from student protesters, specifically addressing Regan’s anti-civil rights stance and his campaign against Berkeley’s free speech and antiwar student protesters. In 1976, Reagan ran unsuccessfully for the Republic presidential nomination, but was successful in 1980 and 1984, serving two terms as President. As a politician, Reagan positioned his new conservatism as a reaction against 1960s liberalism. He remained a controversial, polarizing political figure throughout his career.
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Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
unknown
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Physical Object
Wake Up America!
Conservatism
An address by Howard W. Kacy, Chairman of the Board, Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co., Washington, D.C., delivered on South Carolina Insurance Day in Columbia, South Carolina. The address offers a spirited defense of traditional moral and political values in the face of protest and social change during the 1960s.
Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. late-1960s
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