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.
Why Is There Anything At All?
Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story By: Jim Holt (W.W. Norton & Company, 2012)
Jim ...
Locke
Directed by: Steven Knight
Sometimes a movie’s makers take the chance to do something innovative in the ...
I Won’t Grow Up
Scott, A.O. "The Death of Adulthood in American Culture" New York Times Magazine (September 11, ...
JoJo Rabbit
Directed by: Taiki Waititi.
JoJo Rabbit is perhaps the strangest, most disconcerting of the nine nominees ...
Evangelicals Unreasonable?
Apostles of Reason By: Molly Worthen (Oxford University Press, 2016)
There are at least three reasons why ...
A Separation
Directed by: Asghar Farhadi
The Islamic Republic of Iran may be as distant politically from the United ...
The Reader
By: Bernhard Schlink (New York: Pantheon, 1997)
Summary:
“I wanted simultaneously to understand Hanna’s ...
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Directed by: Benh Zeitlin
Beasts of the Southern Wild is an example of what is happening in the Academy ...
The Master
Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
The “R” rating of The Master is well-deserved. Filled with the sexual ...
The Descendants
Directed by: Alexander Payne
In this year’s presentations of my annual lecture on the Academy Award ...
War Room
Directed by: Alex Kendrick
I had begun to get so hopeful towards the efforts of Alex and Stephen Kendrick, ...
Spectre
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Autumn is the time of falling leaves, crisp air, football and Oscar ...