Editing Good Will Hunting (section)

===Academic response===
Several scholars have examined the role of class, religion and the cultural geography of Boston in the film. Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera observed that the [[Anti-Catholicism in the United States|residual Catholic–Protestant tensions in Boston]] are an important backdrop in the film, as [[Irish Catholic]]s from [[South Boston|Southie]] are aligned against ostensibly [[White Anglo-Saxon Protestant|Protestant]] characters who are affiliated with [[Harvard University|Harvard]] and [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]].<ref name="Herlihy-Mera">{{cite journal |last=Herlihy-Mera |first=Jeffrey |url=https://www.academia.edu/1548918 |title=Revisioning Migration: On the Stratifications of Irish Boston in Good Will Hunting |journal=ALIF: Journal of Comparative Poetics |volume=32 |date=2012 |pages=1–22 |isbn=9789774165283 |access-date=September 1, 2013 |archive-date=February 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206031437/https://www.academia.edu/1548918/Revisioning_Migration_On_the_Stratifications_of_Irish_Boston_in_Good_Will_Hunting |url-status=live }}</ref> Emmett Winn has argued that character interactions show class conflict and stunted social mobility,<ref>{{cite book |last=Winn |first=Emmett |author-link= |date=2007|title=The American Dream and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZzPUAwAAQBAJ |location= |publisher=A & C Black |pages=77–82 |isbn=978-1441129758}}</ref> while, similarly, David Lipset commented that class inequality is a driving subtext.<ref name="Lipset">{{cite journal |last=Lipset |first=David |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08949468.2021.1984806 |title=Comedy and Other Hollywood Tropes of American Social Stratification (1990–2011) |journal=Visual Anthropology |volume=34 |date=2021 |issue=5 |pages=405–422 |doi=10.1080/08949468.2021.1984806 |s2cid=244118694 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>