Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress

Description

Kenneth Clark's 1969 BBC series Civilisation (note the singular) is perhaps the most celebrated documentary series ever made, except that it was entirely of its time: patrician to the exclusion of women and western to the exclusion of all other cultures. Spring 2018 sees an ambitious 10-part BBC re-make, presented by Britain's foremost historians, embracing global civilisations and exploring different themes in the universal histories of art and culture.;First Contact -- Victorian Disbelief -- A Manner Nation -- Invaders and Looting -- Justifying Conquest -- Keeping an Eye on Culture -- Embracing the New -- Acts of Empire -- Cult of Progress -- The Lure of the Pharaohs -- Revolution in the Midlands -- The City and the Slum -- The American Wilderness -- The Course of Empire -- The Theft of Identity -- Portraits for Posterity -- The Advent of the Camera -- An Artistic Response to Progress -- An Exotic Escape -- Transformations -- The Plunge of Europe. First Contact -- Victorian Disbelief -- A Manner Nation -- Invaders and Looting -- Justifying Conquest -- Keeping an Eye on Culture -- Embracing the New -- Acts of Empire -- Cult of Progress -- The Lure of the Pharaohs -- Revolution in the Midlands -- The City and the Slum -- The American Wilderness -- The Course of Empire -- The Theft of Identity -- Portraits for Posterity -- The Advent of the Camera -- An Artistic Response to Progress -- An Exotic Escape -- Transformations -- The Plunge of Europe.