APELC Class Notes

Objectives: APELCers processed a film.

As I said I’d keep it light but educational and relevant this week juniors, we began watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture. I justified it because of the movie’s socio-cultural, popular-historical, media significance, and because of the essential existential questions its story implies, among them: What are the responsible limits and uses of power? Of technology?, What is duty?, What is sacrifice?, What is it to be human?, What is identity?, What is purpose?, What are humanity’s destinations?, et cetera. You’ll recognize these from discussions of our several of the texts from the year past. I recommend examining the following for some interesting insight: “Star Trek” at Wikipedia and the “Cultural influence of Star Trek” and the brief essay “Star Trek as a Cultural Phenomenon”.

See you Wednesday for our final 90 minutes together.

May 18, 2009 | Filed Under AP Language

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