Facing the Pacific : : Polynesia and the U.S. Imperial Imagination / / Jeffrey A. Geiger.
The enduring popularity of Polynesia in western literature, art, and film attests to the pleasures that Pacific islands have, over the centuries, afforded the consuming gaze of the west-connoting solitude, release from cares, and, more recently, self-renewal away from urbanized modern life. Facing t...
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Geiger, Jeffrey A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Facing the Pacific : Polynesia and the U.S. Imperial Imagination / Jeffrey A. Geiger. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2007] ©2007 1 online resource (336 p.) : 10 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Garden and the Wilderness: Tropes of Order and Disorder -- 2. Idylls and Ruins: Frederick O'Brien in the Marquesas -- 3. Searching for Moana: Frances Hubbard and Robert J. Flaherty in Samoa -- 4. The Front and Back of Paradise: W. S. Van Dyke and MGM in Tahiti -- 5. The Homoerotic Exotic: From C. W. Stoddard to Tabu -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The enduring popularity of Polynesia in western literature, art, and film attests to the pleasures that Pacific islands have, over the centuries, afforded the consuming gaze of the west-connoting solitude, release from cares, and, more recently, self-renewal away from urbanized modern life. Facing the Pacific is the first study to offer a detailed look at the United States' intense engagement with the myth of the South Seas just after the First World War, when, at home, a popular vogue for all things Polynesian seemed to echo the expansion of U.S. imperialist activities abroad.Jeffrey Geiger looks at a variety of texts that helped to invent a vision of Polynesia for U.S. audiences, focusing on a group of writers and filmmakers whose mutual fascination with the South Pacific drew them together-and would eventually drive some of them apart. Key figures discussed in this volume are Frederick O'Brien, author of the bestseller White Shadows in the South Seas; filmmaker Robert Flaherty and his wife, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, who collaborated on Moana; director W. S. Van Dyke, who worked with Robert Flaherty on MGM's adaptation of White Shadows; and Expressionist director F. W. Murnau, whose last film, Tabu, was co-directed with Flaherty. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Imperialism in literature. Imperialism History 20th century. Popular culture United States History 20th century. Public opinion United States History 20th century. HISTORY / United States / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110564143 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110663259 print 9780824830663 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824862459 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824862459 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824862459/original |
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