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Facing the Pacific : Polynesia and the U.S. imperial imagination / Jeffrey Geiger.
LIBRA DU30 .G45 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Geiger, Jeffrey.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Relations.
- Oceania--Relations--United States.
- Oceania.
- United States--Relations--Oceania.
- United States.
- Imperialism--History--20th century.
- Imperialism.
- History.
- Oceania--Foreign public opinion, American.
- Public opinion--United States--History--20th century.
- Public opinion.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Oceania--In literature.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Oceania--In motion pictures.
- Imperialism in motion pictures.
- Oceania Region.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2007]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824830663
- 0824830660
- OCLC:
- 79001855
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