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

Main Author: Geiger, Jeffrey.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai°i Press, c2007.
Subjects:
Imperialism > History > 20th century.
Public opinion > History > 20th century. > United States
Popular culture > History > 20th century. > United States
Imperialism in literature.
Imperialism in motion pictures.
Oceania > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Oceania.
Oceania > Foreign public opinion, American.
Oceania > In literature.
Oceania > In motion pictures.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10386725
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.

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