Facing the Pacific [electronic resource] : Polynesia and the U.S. imperial imagination / Jeffrey Geiger.
Material type:
- Imperialism -- History -- 20th century
- Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Imperialism in literature
- Imperialism in motion pictures
- Oceania -- Relations -- United States
- United States -- Relations -- Oceania
- Oceania -- Foreign public opinion, American
- Oceania -- In literature
- Oceania -- In motion pictures
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- DU30 .G45 2007eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-296) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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