英文电影赏析——America In 1960s

1、America In 1960s culture and flims1960National Liberation Front and Vietcong begin attacking South Vietnam. JohnF. Kennedy elected president. Civil rights protestors conduct sit-ins in the South Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed. 1961Summit meeting between the United States and the Soviet Union. 1962Cuban missile crisis. Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring. 1961-1963 U.S. troops go to South Vietnam as military advisors, then combatants. 1963 Diem assassinated Congress passed Ton

2、kin Gulf Resolution. Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Civil rights protest in Birmingham Alabama. Martin Luther King gives “I Have a Dream“speech in Washington. Kennedy assassinated;Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president. 1964 Twenty-Fourth Amendment ratified. Civil Rights Act of 1964. War on Poverty. Johnson reelected president. 1965 Johnson institutes military draft. Operation Rolling Thunder First national antiwar demonstration in Washington D.C. Great Society Medicare and Medicaid founded Selma,

3、Alabama,voting registration drive Malcolm X assassinated. Department of Housing and Urban Development established. Corpoaration for Public Broadcasting created Voting Rights Act. 1966 Congressional hearings on Vietnam. Black Panther Party founded. 1968 Tet Offensive Robert F Kennedy assassinated. Richard Nixon elected president. Poor Peoples Campaign Martin Luther King ,Jr. assassinated 1969 U.S. troop withdrawals begin U.S. bombing of Cambodia. Warren Burger appointed to Supreme Court. The Viet

4、nam WarThe Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from September 26, 1959 to April 30, 1975. The war was fought between the communist North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. U.S. and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operat

5、ions, involving ground forces, artillery and airstrikes. The United States entered the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities, including 3 to 4 million Vietnamese from both sides, 1.5 to 2 million Laotians and Cambodians, and 58,159 U.S. soldiers. Vietnam War The Deer HunterVietnam WarPlatoonVietnam WarApocalypse NowApocalypse Now“Apocalypse Now“ is a very advanced piece of war a

6、rt, and is a very interesting war movie . If you want to see is similar to “Saving Private Ryan“ , it is advised you do not need to see “Apocalypse Now“. Back to the topic, “Apocalypse Now“ as a captain to accept a secret order - the assassination of a mutiny of Colonel crazy into the book, in the implementation of the order of the way people everywhere experience incredible ridiculous. The captain received orders, in itself with the psychological trauma of the Vietnam War, received orders that

7、drunk before, the room filled with people suffocated in the atmosphere of despair. Some small details in the emergence of the film is very interesting, that absurd show sympathy ambiguous showed a distinct human nature of war and conflict between, and even the desire of people are unable to meet, it advertised a “liberation of Vietnam, exterminated the communist doctrine “of the war, what can these soldiers? The so-called war, deprived of their lost humanity, and only the law of the jungle natur

8、al mechanism for any of the mercy and compassion, are ridiculous, hypocritical . No matter how radical art, always can not change the reality of this society, both full of passion, full of the spirit of the artist how to use film to express their own ideas, the reality is always merciless to tell us: who is always a sad, morbid Animals Let “Apocalypse Now“ to the heritage nature of the war, so that the reality of war in modern society continue to deny swallow fishes only human .Womens MovementIn

9、1960s,the United States raised a national feminism movement,which is historically called re-rise of womens movement.After World war ,contradictory between conservative sex consciousness and developed economic life with intensifications of various social contradictories causes this re-rise of womens movement.This movement is characterized by its combination with contemporary.American civil right movement,building up national strict organization system ,and the ultimate goal striving for the legal safeguard.Thelma andLouiseThe AccusedSnow WhiteSnow White Snow Whiteis the most important novel of an American writer called Donald Bartholomew. It postmodernism, black humor, and absurd novels which is very classic. In the authors mind, Snow White is just a common modern woman, is a real person with emotions, such

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