As always, you may write on any topic of interest to you that engage the class topics and reading material.
Here are some possibilities:
1. Discuss moral luck as Bernard Williams understands it, and illustrate your discussion by reference to one or more movies we have screened this semester (excluding The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance).
2. Apply CarrollŐs theory of art horror with reference to one film that we have not watched in class. Discuss the extent to which CarrollŐs theory successfully captures the features of this film.
3. Russ Shafer-Landau argues that the retributive theory of punishment is problematic because it cannot appropriately distinguish acts that are appropriately criminalized from those that are not. Explain and assess this argument.
4. Discuss at least two different theories of justice on display in The Unforgiven. Explain which one you think is best, and if necessary, make reference to Shafer-LandauŐs paper.
5. Freeland argues that Ňit is easier for filmmakers to depict females as heroes combating horror if the monsters are also female, especially if they set up a primitive female contest in the reproductive and mouthing arenaÓ (82). Explain FreelandŐs argument by reference to Alien or Them, and then apply it to another film we have not seen in class.