Philosophy in film Visual & Performing Arts Book Review

Search for Meaning



o Stanley Kubrick, 2001 ( Movie )

o Derek Parfit, “Why does the Universe Exist?” ( Reading )

o Thomas Nagel, “The Absurd” ( Reading )

 What does the monolith represent?



DO NOT REAPEAT THE PLOT IN MOVIE, THIS IS NOT A MOVIRE REVIEW



EACH RESPONSE NEEDS TO:

1) have a title

2) answer the question.

3) bold main claim (otherwise known as a thesis)

4) have a beginning (introduces the text you are writing about and the topic), a middle (the

bulk of the paper where you make an argument), and an end (where you tell me what you

wrote about).

5) analyze at least one quotation from the text.

6) cite quotations properly (Plato, Republic, 430a2).

7) be broken into multiple paragraphs that communicate a thought and build on each other to

argue for your claim. This should look like a mini-paper.

8) be no longer than 400 words.

9) reference readings and the film.