The Strange Conservatism of Forrest Gump

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How did Forrest Gump become the posterchild for the 90s alt right? Let's find out!

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SOURCES:
Richard Corliss, "The World According to Gump," Time (1994).

Frederic Jameson, Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Duke University Press (1992).

Fredric Jameson, “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture” Social Text, no.1 (1979).

David Kehr, “Who Framed: FORREST GUMP” Film Comment, Vol. 31, No. 2 (1995).

Eric Kohn, “‘Forrest Gump,’ 25 Years Later: A Bad Movie That Gets Worse With Age” Indie Wire (2019).

David Lavery, “"No Box of Chocolates": The Adaptation of "Forrest Gump"” Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 1 (1997).

Howard Mancing, “The Picaresque Novel: A Protean Form” College Literature, Vol. 6, No. 3 (1979).

Mark Crispin Miller, “”Hollywood: The Ad” The Atlantic (1990).

William Flint Thrall and Addison Hibbard, A Handbook to Literature, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1936).

Jennifer Hyland Wang, “A Struggle of Contending Stories": Race, Gender, and Political Memory in "Forrest Gump” Cinema Journal, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Spring, 2000).