Alistair_Cooke's_America《美国来鸿》
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官方网站
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ffbjg
影片原始规格:
- 中文片名 ：美国来鸿
- 中文系列名：
- 英文片名 ：Alistair Cooke’s America / Letter From America
- 英文系列名：
- 电视台 ：BBC
- 地区 ：英国
- 语言 ：英语
- 时长 ：50 min / EP
- 版本 ：TV
- 发行时间 ：1972
影片内容介绍
剧情简介
这是英国BBC极受欢迎的节目, 高龄95岁的主持人Alistair Cooke每周四将美国社会中的大大小小的社会事件用轻松又有知性的口吻传达给远在英国的听众, 由于幼时居住英国乡下, 后来受英国卫报聘为驻美记者, 又身兼BBC特约记者, 就开始了此节目的撰写工作, 虽然只有短短15分钟, 但是58年来却见证了美国历史上的重大事件, 从甘乃迪总统遇刺身亡, 水门丑闻, 及911恐怖攻击, 最初仅仅是BBC第四广播电台的国内节目, 后来也在国际广播上播出, 使得他退休讯息传出后更是受人怀念与不舍。
从1946年开播的这个专门介绍美国的节目，总共走过58个年头，见证2个世纪。这个节目向全球五十多个国家播放，据BBC估计，收听库克节目的全球听众多达二千二百万人。
1946年，库克在他最初提给BBC的节目企划案中写到：「它将是一封每周写给英国人在火炉旁展读的私人信件，我会试图就美国生活中的主要话题，提出评论，其中包括华府政策的真实背景和重要美国人物的介绍等。所要强调的总是美国生活的源头活水，而不是头条新闻，那些只是泡沫而已！」当时，英国陷入经济低潮，库克心想，这个节目如果可以按照计划播完试验性的13集就算不错了，没想到播完13集之后，又延长13集，之后，又13集……，他当然想像不到，这个节目将会播到下一个世纪。本片由广播节目汇总整理而成。
分集介绍
The First Impact
This episode covers the entire country, from Yale to New Orleans to the west coast, as Cooke recounts his first journey there. There’s a stop-off at the Mayo Clinic on the way.
The New Found Land
Columbus discovers the West Indies, and the Spanish move up into California in search of the seven cities of gold. The French move south from Canada.
Home From Home
English settlers make their way to Virginia, but their enterprises continue to be run from London. Representative government is born. Another group, this time of Puritans, miss their intended target by hundreds of miles.
Making a Revolution
The imposition of taxes, to pay for a protective force for the colonies, is rejected by the colonists themselves. This sows the seeds of revolution, which begins badly for the locals. But they had not counted on a patrician and stubborn farmer named George Washington.
Inventing a Nation
Once the British have been sent packing, the colonists must decide how to govern their new country. Not satisfied with historical models, they invent their own, not without conflict.
Gone West
Settlers begin to push west into the unknown territories. This episode discusses the need for salt, the forcible removal of the Indian tribes and the trek across the country to the goldfields.
A Firebell in the Night
Cooke traces the roots of the Civil War in the cotton gin and the need for cheap labour. The war leaves a lasting bitterness in the South.
Domesticating a Wilderness
This episode tells of the settling of the west with boom towns born from gold and silver mining, the railroad bringing goods and people more quickly to the interior and the rise of the cowboy. The Indians object.
Money on the Land
Chicago becomes the world’s biggest grain market. The need for new technology spurs inventors such as Thomas Edison. Steel, railroads and speculation bring great wealth to a few men, like Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan.
The Huddled Masses
Cooke looks at the sharp increase in immigration in the late 19th century, as people fled persecution, famine and conflicts in Europe to try to forge a new life in the land paved with gold. A new class of poor factory workers is created, causing new tensions.
The Promise Fulfilled and the Promise Broken
The boom times of the 1920s lead to much wealth on paper, corruption (Harding) and blithe indifference (Coolidge) in government, and a frivolity that would come crashing to earth with the depression.
The Arsenal
The history of the American armed forces in a nutshell. The response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor from American industry and the Manhattan Project are discussed. Cooke also has a look at the formation of the United Nations.
The More Abundant Life
This last episode looks at current trends in American society, from the move to the suburbs to those who went back to nature in search of the simple life. Cooke also looks at race relations. Some of this has not turned out the way he envisaged, as he admits in a prologue to this episode which must have been recorded sometime during the Reagan era.
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