The_American_Future:_A_History《美国的未来》
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dygkw
影片原始规格:
- 中文片名 ：美国的未来
- 中文系列名：
- 英文片名 ：The American Future: A History
- 英文系列名：
- 电视台 ：BBC
- 地区 ：英国
- 语言 ：英语
- 时长 ：约 59 分钟/集
- 版本 ：TV
- IMDB链接 ：http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1215974/
- 发行时间 ：2008
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剧情简介
此片有助于抵挡不绝于耳的煽动者的谎言和丑闻，与当下的现实同样严肃，可也无法冲淡竞选带来的激动人心的情绪。911，卡特里娜飓风，安然公司事件以及伊战之后，美国式的乐观情绪若想要重回主流，受到以下两方面因素的阻碍：军事上的受挫和国内的焦虑情绪。这是一场美国式的诠释，但它对于自身限制的认知却是非美国式的。本片通过回顾美国历史中美妙绝伦的时刻来解读现世，将诸如托马斯杰弗森、亨利福特、马克吐温、亚伯拉罕林肯之类的传奇人物，和如今的士兵、商人、卡车司机、教师以及（甚至）政客联系起来。这个系列片及时而生动地将重大历史时刻前的美国（过去和现在）展现在观众眼前。
分集介绍
American Plenty
13 Oct 2008 20:00 BBC HD
In American Plenty, Simon explores how American optimism about the infinite possibilities of its land and resources is in danger of coming to a grinding halt. Nowhere is it more evident than in the American West, which has always been a symbol of opportunity and freedom. Oil at 4 dollars a gallon may be dominating the headlines, but here it is the lack of water that is an even bigger threat to the American future. The West is in the grip of a years-long drought.
America’s optimism about its natural resources has always been spiced with clashes over conservation going back to the first man to navigate the Colorado river, John Wesley Powell. American ingenuity made farming on an industrial scale possible in the early years of the 20th century but at the cost of making Oklahoma a dust bowl. The Hoover Dam, a modern American miracle which used to provide essential irrigation for farming and for the new city of Las Vegas, is not able to cope with the demand for water any more.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan’s optimism about American plenty defeated Jimmy Carter’s campaign for self-restraint. But in the 2008 election, neither candidate can ignore the challenges facing America as it enters an era of limits.
American War
20 Oct 2008 20:00 BBC HD
Shot against the backdrop of the presidential campaign, Simon Schama travels through America to dig deep into the conflicts of its history to understand what is at stake right now.
In American War, Simon reveals how different the American attitude to war is from what outsiders assume it to be. Two of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, disagreed about whether America should even have a professional army - a division still evident when Simon visits America’s premier military academy at West Point. From the Civil War right through to Mark Twain’s denunciation of President Teddy Roosevelt’s imperial adventure in the Phillipines, American wars have inspired profound debate. And nowhere more so in the 2008 election than San Antonio, Texas, nicknamed Military City because of its high population of veterans and serving soldiers, where Simon finds feelings about the war are deeply divided. As with the great war elections of the past, it’s a debate which forces America to dig deep and rediscover what it stands for.
American Fervour
27 Oct 2008 20:00 BBC HD
While the 2008 presidential campaign is in full swing, Simon Schama travels through America to dig deep into the conflicts of its history to understand what is at stake right now.
Simon explores the ways in which faith has shaped American political life. His starting point is a remarkable fact about the coming election: for the first time in a generation it is the Democrats who claim to be the party of God. It is Barak Obama, not John McCain, who has been talking about his faith. In Britain we have always thought of American religion as a largely conservative force, yet Simon shows how throughout American history it has played a crucial role in the fight for freedom.
Faith helped create America - it was the search for religious freedom that led thousands to make the dangerous journey to the colonies in the 1600s. After independence was won, that religious freedom was enshrined in the constitution; America was the first country in the world to do so. Simon also looks at the remarkable role the black church has played, first in the liberation of the slaves in the 1800s, and again in the civil rights movement of the 1960s; neither would have happened without its religious activists. It is this very church that has been the inspiration for Barak Obama, who traces the roots of his political inspiration to his faith.
What is an American
03 Nov 2008 20:00 BBC HD
While the 2008 presidential campaign is in full swing, Simon Schama travels through America to dig deep into the conflicts of its history to understand what is at stake right now.
Simon looks at the bitter conflict over immigration in American history. Who should be allowed to enter America and call themselves an American has always been one of the nation’s most divisive issues, and it continues to be so at this election. He traces the roots of this conflict to the founding of America.
The early settlers were themselves immigrants, but they saw America as fundamentally a white and Protestant nation. Simon looks at the key events that challenged this view: the annexation of parts of Mexico in 1848 that made 100,000 non-whites American citizens, the immigration and subsequent expulsion of the Chinese in the late 19th century, and the massive immigration from Eastern Europe during the industrialisation of the 1920s. Each time there have been those who have insisted America must stay white if it’s to stay true to itself, and each time they have been defeated by the sheer force of history.
John F Kennedy defined America as a Nation of Immigrants in 1964 and Simon argues that the candidacy of Barack Obama represents the final triumph of the vision of America as a multi-ethnic nation.
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人物 Simon Schama
内容 社会科学类
| 社会
| 传记/人物
| 舆论/议题
| 政治
|]] | 军事
| 近代战争
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史地类
| 历史
| 十八世纪
| 十九世纪
| 二十世纪
| 二十一世纪
| 地理
| 美洲
| 北美洲
| 美国
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