Hollywood's Hawaii : Race, Nation, and War / Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Konzett, Delia Malia Caparoso, author.

Series:

War culture.

War Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Motion picture locations--Oceana.

Motion picture locations.

Motion picture locations--Hawaii.

Oceania--In motion pictures.

Oceania.

Hawaii--In motion pictures.

Hawaii.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages).

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Whether presented as exotic fantasy, a strategic location during World War II, or a site combining postwar leisure with military culture, Hawaii and the South Pacific figure prominently in the U.S. national imagination. Hollywood's Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry's intense engagement with the Pacific region from 1898 to the present. Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett highlights films that mirror the cultural and political climate of the country over more than a century-from the era of U.S. imperialism on through Jim Crow racial segregation, the attack on Pearl Harbor and WWII, the civil rights movement, the contemporary articulation of consumer and leisure culture, as well as the buildup of the modern military industrial complex. Focusing on important cultural questions pertaining to race, nationhood, and war, Konzett offers a unique view of Hollywood film history produced about the national periphery for mainland U.S. audiences. Hollywood's Hawaii presents a history of cinema that examines Hawaii and the Pacific and its representations in film in the context of colonialism, war, Orientalism, occupation, military buildup, and entertainment.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The American Empire in the South Pacific and Its Representation in Hollywood Cinema, 1898-Present

1. The South Pacific and Hawaii on Screen. Territorial Expansion and Cinematic Colonialism

2. World War II Hawaii. Orientalism and the American Century

3. Postwar Hawaii and the Birth of the Military-Industrial Complex

4. Conclusion The New Cultural Amnesia in Contemporary Cinema and Television

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780813587455

081358745X

9780813587462

0813587468

OCLC:

982958343