Resources
We invite you to browse the Consortium’s collection of resources on articles, books and movies, as well as the discussion guides designed to spark discussion among students and others.
The Iliad
By: Homer trans. Robert Fagles (London: Penguin Classics, 1998)
Summary:
Homer, the ancient blind bard, ...
Clarity and Cults
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief By: Lawrence Wright (Vintage, 2013)
Lawrence ...
The End of the Tour
Directed by: James Ponsoldt
Talky movies are never big box office. The famous cult classic My Dinner with ...
The Descendants
Directed by: Alexander Payne
In this year’s presentations of my annual lecture on the Academy Award ...
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?
McClay, Wilfrid M. “On the Need for Erasure”, The Hedgehog Review, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring, 2015)
In this brief ...
The Hateful Eight
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
I won’t say much about The Hateful Eight for a number of reasons. Anyone who ...
Vain Repetition?
Watson, Micah "Neo Vs. The Karate Kid, 'Public Discourse: Ethics, Law and the Public Good'" Public Discourse (May ...
How Did the Modern World Come To Be?
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern By: Stephen Greenblatt (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, ...
Locke
Directed by: Steven Knight
Sometimes a movie’s makers take the chance to do something innovative in the ...
Midnight in Paris
Directed by: Woody Allen
The question has been around for centuries: of all the times in human history, ...
Life of Pi
Directed by: Ang Lee
“Is it possible that there are no coincidences?” Mel Gibson’s character, a former ...
World Gone Wrong
The Hunger Games By: Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press, 2008)
In her trilogy The Hunger Games Suzanne ...