The Hard Sell of Paradise : Hawai'i, Hollywood, Tourism / Jason Sperb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sperb, Jason, 1978- author.

Series:

SUNY series, horizons of cinema.

SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Motion pictures.

Television programs--United States--History--20th century.

Television programs.

Hawaii--On television.

Hawaii.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2022]

Summary:

Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai'i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Contents:

Introduction: touristic visions and virtual tourists

Save that gag for the tourists: the Hawaii Tourists Breau and post-tourism narratives of 1930s Hollywood

Twilight of the past, island of utopia: December 7th and the contradictions of war nostalgia

Your're still talking about class? adapting statehood Diamond Head (1963)

Founded on truth but not fact: pastiche narratives of modernity in adaptions of James Michener's Hawaii (1959)

Business or pleasure: the touristic contradictions of the Elvis/Hawai'i experience from Blue Hawaii (1961) to Aloha from Hawaii (1973)

Shoot all winter, show all summer: frontier mythologies and the hipster tourism of surf documentaries

If you can't find it, don't write it: genre and competing notions of realism in Hawaii Five-O (1968)

Conclusion: Hawai'i bound.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438487755

1438487754

OCLC:

1290246346