Description: She concludes with a provocative analysis of Forrest Gump, identifying the popular film as a retelling of post-World War II Southern history.
Brief description: Allison Graham, winner of the Erik Barnouw Award of the Organization of American Historians in 1994, is a professor of media and communication studies at the University of Memphis.
Review Quotes: A resourceful, imaginative, sure-handed analysis by an author who knows both how movies and television get made and how to get at what those products mean.
--Thomas Cripps, Journal of Southern History