A STUDY OF UTOPIAS THROUGH QUANTATIVE ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE

乌托邦梦对美国人的思想产生了怎样的影响？这是我们在1997财政年度研究的主题。据此，我们共同为方案准备了基础数据库；我们收集并研究了美国文学和电影的各种资源，以期找到任何可以讨论的乌托邦主题。这里需要补充的是，在前面的项目中，我们得出了一个有趣的假设，即反文化或反文化运动往往每隔一个世纪就会在美国出现；这些运动可能源于美国人民对“乌托邦”的永恒渴望。在1998年，我们致力于将美国文学史和美国电影史整合为一个整体，并以“乌托邦”为共同主题。我们在美国数以百计的文学和电影场景中重新认识到乌托邦梦想的广度和力量。它有时表现得直截了当，有时又狡猾地伪装起来。重要的是，它总是把一个典型的美国角色与它出现的作品联系起来。美国当然是地球上的乌托邦，因为它给了移民成功的梦想；这不是一个在地球上“无处”存在的乌托邦，而是一个只在美国“无处”存在的乌托邦。梦想早已远去。然而，梦想——对乌托邦的永恒渴望——仍然存在于美国人的脑海中，因为它曾经真正存在过，所以更加强烈。我们相信，我们的“1997-1998”项目有助于为公众提供一个合适的视角，以一种综合的方式讨论美国文学和美国电影。

What kind of influences has the utopian dream had on the American mind? This was the subject of our research in the 1997 fiscal year. Accordingly, we worked together to preparing basic data bases for the scheme; we collected and examined various resources in American literature and cinema, with a view to finding whatever utopian topics there were to be discussed. It is to be added here that, in the previous projects, we had arrived at an interesting hypothesis that anti- or counter-cultural movements tend to emerge in America with an interval of a century; that these movements probably stem from the perenial desire of the American people for "utopias." In the 1998 year, we devoted ourselves to integrating both American literary history and American cinema history into a whole, under the common theme of "utopia." And we came to realize afresh the width and strength of the utopian dream on hundreds of literary and cinematic scenes in America. It sometimes appears in a very straight way, while it sometimes shows itself cunningly disguised. Importantly, it never fails to attach a typically American character to the works where it appears. America was certainly a utopia on earth, since it gave its immigrants the dream of success; it was not a utopia that existed "nowhere" on earth, but a utopia that existed "nowhere" but in America. The dream has long been gone. Yet, the dream--the perenial aspiration for utopias --still remains on the American mind, the more strongly because once it really existed.Our project 1997-1998, we believe, is instrumental in providing the general public with a proper perspective for discussing American literature and American cinema in an integrated manner.