Freedom and Film: What Is Liberty?
ABSTRACT
This conference brought together professionals working in the film industry to discuss issues of liberty and the free society as they might be depicted in film.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
The Pursuit of Happyness. Directed by Gabriele Muccino. Culver City: Sony Pictures, 2006. DVD.
Unforgiven. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Warner Bros.: Burbank, 1992. DVD (2010).
Blade Runner. Directed by Ridley Scott. Burbank: Warner Bros., 1982. DVD.
2081. Directed by Chandler Tuttle. Motion Picture Institute (MPI): New York, 2009. DVD.
Berlin, Isaiah, “Two Concepts of Liberty (1958).” in Four Essays on Liberty, New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Hayek, F. A. The Constitution of Liberty. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Mill, John Stuart, “On Liberty” In On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1879. 1-204. http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/347 (accessed from the Online Library of Liberty).
Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State, and Utopia. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1974.
Nozick, Robert, “The Entitlement Theory of Justice.” in The Libertarian Reader: Classic and contemporary readings from Lao-tzu to Milton Friedman, edited by David Boaz, 181-196. New York: The Free Press, 1997.
Rand, Ayn., “What Is Capitalism?” In Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, New York: Signet (New American Library), 1967. Page(s): 11-34.
Rothbard, Murray, “The State.” in The Libertarian Reader: Classic and contemporary readings from Lao-tzu to Milton Friedman, edited by David Boaz, 36-41. New York: The Free Press, 1997.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Edited by Eduardo Nolla. Translated by James T. Schleifer. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2010.