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.