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Hollywood's Hawaii : race, nation, and war / Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 253 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813587462
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1995 .H655 2017
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Contents:
The South Pacific and Hawaii on screen: territorial expansion and cinematic colonialism -- World War II Hawaii: Orientalism and the American century -- Postwar Hawaii and the birth of the military industrial complex -- Conclusion: Hawaii in contemporary cinema and television: the new cultural amnesia.
Subject: Hollywood's Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry's intense engagement with Hawaii and the South Pacific from 1898 to the present. This book presents a history of cinema that examines Hawaii and the Pacific and its representation in film in the context of colonialism, war, Orientalism, occupation, military buildup, and entertainment.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PN1995.9.38 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn982958343

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: The American empire in the South Pacific and its representation in Hollywood cinema, 1898-present -- The South Pacific and Hawaii on screen: territorial expansion and cinematic colonialism -- World War II Hawaii: Orientalism and the American century -- Postwar Hawaii and the birth of the military industrial complex -- Conclusion: Hawaii in contemporary cinema and television: the new cultural amnesia.

Hollywood's Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry's intense engagement with Hawaii and the South Pacific from 1898 to the present. This book presents a history of cinema that examines Hawaii and the Pacific and its representation in film in the context of colonialism, war, Orientalism, occupation, military buildup, and entertainment.

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