Friday, February 16, 2007

Ideological Views in Forrest Gump


The article "A Struggle of Contending Stories": Race, Gender, and Political Memory in Forrest Gump," written by Jennifer Hyland Wang, explains how political conservatives use the film to articulate a traditional version of recent American history and to define their political background in the 1994 congressional elections. It discusses how Forrest became a cultural and political image to "re-define America." This article will help stimulate the ideological points in the final paper.

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