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Writing About Film by Jules LeFort-Cleary: Forrest Gump

Scholarly Sources

  • Wang, Jennifer Hyland. “‘A Struggle of Contending Stories’: Race, Gender, and Political Memory in ‘Forrest Gump.’” Cinema Journal, vol. 39, no. 3, 2000, pp. 92–115. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1225535. 

  • Wineburg, Sam, et al. “Forrest Gump and the Future of Teaching the Past.” The Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 89, no. 3, 2007, pp. 168–77. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20442445. 

  • Scott, Steven D. “‘Like a Box of Chocolates’: ‘Forrest Gump’ and Postmodernism.” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 1, 2001, pp. 23–31. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43797013.

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If you cannot find the article, email Mrs. LeFort-Cleary at jules.lefort@montgomerybell.edu with the article citation and she can assist you. 

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