Four-part film on Appalachia scheduled at Shawnee State University
Issue date: 4/27/09 Section: News
A special screening of the four-part film "Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People" will be shown in the Flohr Lecture Hall at Shawnee State University's Clark Memorial Library from 7:30 to 10 p.m. on Monday, April 27 and Tuesday, April 28. The screening is free and open to the public as a gift from Will and Barb Burke.
Parts one and two will be shown on Monday night and parts three and four will be shown on Tuesday night. Dr. Barbara Kunkle, SSU professor of English and Humanities, will lead a discussion after the films each night.
"The first film is totally awesome, I couldn't believe it," Kunkle said. "Lots of interesting people are interviewed and there is a great sound track. It is a new and exciting way to present Appalachia to the world in a broader and more positive way than we've generally seen exposed in the mass media."
In "Part One: Time and Terrain," the series begins with Earth's oldest mountains - the Appalachians. The evolution of the Great Forest that blankets the region in green, forming a home for a unique mosaic of plant and animal species is traced. The film shows the first humans who arrived as early as 12,000 B.C.
In "Part Two: New Green World," the Native Americans and Europeans collide in a struggle for control of the mountains. The new inhabitant, the pioneer, carves out a life on the Appalachia frontier creating a new way of life.
"Part Three: Mountain Revolutions" shows the cataclysm of the Civil War and how coal camps replace villages, mountain farms are abandoned, missionary schools spring up and how the wildlife and the culture are endangered.
The last movie of the series, "Part Four: Power and Place" is a story of 20th century Appalachia from the union battles of the 1920s to the celebration of its rich cultural heritage in music, art and literature and the enduring environmental and cultural dilemmas of our own time.
For more information, visit the Web site at www.appalachiafilm.org.
Parts one and two will be shown on Monday night and parts three and four will be shown on Tuesday night. Dr. Barbara Kunkle, SSU professor of English and Humanities, will lead a discussion after the films each night.
"The first film is totally awesome, I couldn't believe it," Kunkle said. "Lots of interesting people are interviewed and there is a great sound track. It is a new and exciting way to present Appalachia to the world in a broader and more positive way than we've generally seen exposed in the mass media."
In "Part One: Time and Terrain," the series begins with Earth's oldest mountains - the Appalachians. The evolution of the Great Forest that blankets the region in green, forming a home for a unique mosaic of plant and animal species is traced. The film shows the first humans who arrived as early as 12,000 B.C.
In "Part Two: New Green World," the Native Americans and Europeans collide in a struggle for control of the mountains. The new inhabitant, the pioneer, carves out a life on the Appalachia frontier creating a new way of life.
"Part Three: Mountain Revolutions" shows the cataclysm of the Civil War and how coal camps replace villages, mountain farms are abandoned, missionary schools spring up and how the wildlife and the culture are endangered.
The last movie of the series, "Part Four: Power and Place" is a story of 20th century Appalachia from the union battles of the 1920s to the celebration of its rich cultural heritage in music, art and literature and the enduring environmental and cultural dilemmas of our own time.
For more information, visit the Web site at www.appalachiafilm.org.
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