Extra Credit Weekly Film will be Shown Wed. @ 8:30 in SH

In the second half of the semester we are going to discuss more modern Plains life. One of themes that carries over from the 19th century is the exoticification of the rural West and Plains in American culture. Perhaps no better genre of flims represents this than horror- with such titles as The Hills Have Eyes, Wrong Turn, Vacancy and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Partly in honor of it being nearly Spring Break and partly because the subject warrants attention, we are going to watch one of the films representative of the genre that is set in the Great Plains- Stephen King's Children of the Corn. It is films like this arguably that have contributed to the notion that the Great Plains should be depopulated of humans and turned into a "Buffalo Commons." Perhaps. Here is a good article that describes the controversy over this idea: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1049&context=greatplainsquarterly