Telling Stories: Gone With the Wind and American Memory Panel Discussion

Stephane Dunn, PhD, M,A, MFA is a writer, filmmaker, professor, and cultural scholar. Professor Dunn teaches at Morehouse College and is one of the co-founders and first directors of the Morehouse Cinema, Television & Emerging Media Studies (CTEMS) department. She is the author of the book, Baad Bitches & Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films (University of Illinois Press), and the novel Snitchers (2022). Dr. Dunn has been featured on A & E Network’s ‘Voices Magnified’, E! Entertainment, NPR, and the documentary Body Parts, Her essays and reviews  have appeared in a number of edited books and publications, including Ms. Magazine, Newsweek, The Chronicle of Higher Education, CNN.com., The Atlantic, and Vogue, among others. She is the 2016 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award winner for Snitchers, 2020 Finish Line/Tirota Social Impact Screenwriting Competition winner for her screenplay Chicago ’66, and a 2024 Mlab Women of Color short film screenplay finalist in addition to having written and produced two award winning short films.

Dr. Bernstein has been teaching film history and criticism at Emory since 1989 and served as chair of the Film and Media department from 2006-2021. His research and teaching include the history of Hollywood, particularly in the studio era and film reception. More specifically, he explores the ways in which the business of Hollywood inflected production, genre and style and the dynamics of Hollywood’s self-regulation of content and its response to state and city censorship. This resulted in his books Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent and Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television and several anthologies. He is active in the Atlanta film scene, including through The Atlanta Cinema Club, the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, and Midtown Cinema’s Tuesday night classic film series, and is the recipient of numerous grants and awards.

Timothy Frilingos currently works as the Director of Exhibitions at the Atlanta History Center. He received his M.A. in History and a Museum Studies Certificate from the University of Delaware where he worked for both the Historical Society of Delaware and Winterthur’s Historic Houses of Odessa. In Atlanta, Mr. Frilingos started his career as a Preparator for the Michael C. Carlos Museum before taking the position of Curator of Exhibits at the Georgia Capitol Museum. Mr. Frilingos then moved on to become the Director of Exhibitions at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Midtown Atlanta. Prior to taking his current position at the Atlanta History Center, he worked as Manager-Exhibits at the Delta Flight Museum located at the Delta Air Lines Corporate Headquarters.