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DescriptionA History of the U.S. in 20 Movies: an All-Movie History Course by M. W. Jacobs English | EPUB | ISBN-10: 0692313931 | ISBN-13: 0692313931 October 15, 2014 | Escallonia Press   History, Americas, United States CONTENTS Introduction Chapter One - The New World Prehistory & Native Americans - European exploration & colonization of the Americas- Jamestown Chapter Two - The Crucible Early colonial period - Puritanism - Continuing conflict with Indians Chapter Three - John Adams Late colonial period & pre-Revolution - Politics of the Revolution - the Founders - Constitutional Convention - Early republic Chapter Four - The Crossing George Washington - Battles of the Revolution Chapter Five - Amistad Slavery - Abolitionism - John Quincy Adams - Andrew Jackson - Politics of Jackson Era Chapter Six - One Man’s Hero The U.S.-Mexico War - Early immigration - the California Gold Rush Chapter Seven - Gettysburg Battles of the Civil War - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain - Ulysses S Grant - William Tecumseh Sherman - Robert E. Lee Chapter Eight - Lincoln The president and the man - The politics of slavery - Reconstruction Chapter Nine - Little Big Man Westward migration - Plains Indian Wars - Old West - Robber Barons Chapter Ten - Matewan Organized labor - Later immigration - Spanish American War - World War I Homefront - Progressives - First Red Scare Excerpt: Boy meets girl. It’s a core Hollywood plot formula, and in our first film, by legendary auteur (writer-director) Terence Malick, the boy and the girl are also the touch points of the Old and New Worlds. It’s the story of English adventurer and explorer Captain John Smith and Powhatan Indian princess Pocahontas, a story that passed from history into the iconography of American popular culture even before there was a USA. Subject of numerous paintings, the story was eventually Disneyfied in a 2003 animated feature. Peggy Lee summarized the story well in her 1958 jazz classic, “Fever.” “Captain Smith and Pocahontas Had a very mad affair. When her daddy tried to kill him She said, ‘Daddy, oh, don’t you dare … He gives me fever'.” How much of their story is myth and how much history is still being debated by scholars and we’ll wade into that debate. Whatever happened, it answered a need as a founding myth: the Romeo and Juliet of the New World, the imaginary royal wedding of the two worlds. Terence Malick planned his version of the American foundation myth for over twenty-five years, and he finally got it into theaters just short of the 400-year anniversary of the establishment of Jamestown, Virginia, where the lovers met and most of the story is set. Such is his reputation in Hollywood that Malick was given a 50 million dollar budget and total artistic control. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, he translated a book by German philosopher Martin Heidegger and then graduated from Harvard summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa; then he was a Rhodes scholar; then he taught philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He did all this while still in his twenties. Sharing Widget |
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