Historical Memories of Forrest Gump

"A Struggle of Contending Stories: Race,, Gender, and Political Memory in Forrest Gump" by JenniferHyland Wang(a journalist at the "Cinema Journal) talks about the historical shots in Forrest Gump viewed by conservatives.Quoting Wang, "As the political pendulum swung toward a"new conservatism:, Forrest Gump played a critical role in the rearticulation of a traditional version of the American Story. Through its representation of genrer and race and its re-presentation of the 1960s, the movie effectively revise popular memories of the era." The history of the film plays a big role in contributing to the sucess of the movie, along with the idea of conservatism in the re-vised history; created by Forrest Gump.