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 Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University
By: Kevin Roose (New York: Grand Central, 2009).
Summary:
“Even in its weather patterns, Lynchburg, ...
2001: A Space Odyssey
MGM, 1968; Directed by Stanley Kubrick; Starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood; G.
Summary:
Before man ...
The End of the Tour
Directed by: James Ponsoldt
Talky movies are never big box office. The famous cult classic My Dinner with ...
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
By: Laura Hillenbrand (New York: Random House, 2010).
Summary:
Louie Zamperini was a lieutenant in a ...
Equus
By: Peter Shaffer (New York: Scribner, 2005).
Summary:
Equus is a Broadway play written in 1973 by Peter ...
Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1937)
Summary:
One of the preeminent writers of ...
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
Directed by: Francis Lawrence
The Hunger Games has proved a resilient franchise, largely because of the ...
Never Let Me Go
Directed by: Mark Romanek
In a year in which Scarlett Johansson has made no less than three movies where ...
Suffragette
Directed by: Sarah Gavron
Suffragette is a serviceable look into the history of feminism by way of the ...
Ender’s Game
By: Orson Scott Card (New York: Tor Books, 1985)
Summary:
Ender Wiggin is a “Third,” a child born to a ...
Jaws
Universal Pictures, 1975; Directed by Steven Spielberg; Starring Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw; ...
Spy
Directed by: Paul Feig
Spy is one of those movies that saddens me. Hilariously funny, the script by Paul ...