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

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Konzett, Delia Caparoso [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: War culturePublisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]Description: 1 online resource (ix, 253 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813587462
0813587468
9780813587455
081358745X
9780813587455

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hollywood's Hawaii.DDC classification:

791.4309961 23

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.H38 K66 2017eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.