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Facing the Pacific : Polynesia and the U.S. imperial imagination /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Geiger, Jeffrey
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Oceania > In motion pictures.
Oceania > In literature.
Oceania > Foreign public opinion, American.
United States > Relations > Oceania.
Oceania > Relations > United States.
Imperialism in motion pictures.
Imperialism in literature.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Public opinion > United States > History > 20th century.
Imperialism > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The garden and the wilderness : tropes of order and disorder
  • Idylls and ruins : Frederick O'Brien in the Marquesas
  • Searching for Moana : Frances Hubbard and Robert J. Flaherty in Samoa
  • The front and back of paradise : W.S. Van Dyke and MGM in Tahiti
  • The homoerotic exotic : from C.W. Stoddard to Tabu.