Islands of empire : pop culture and U.S. power /

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Camilla Fojas explores a broad range of popular culture media--film, television, journalism, advertisements, travel writing, and literature--with an eye toward how the United States as an empire imagined its own military and economic projects. Impressive in its scope, Islands of Empire looks to Cuba...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fojas, Camilla, 1971- (Author)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Mass media and culture > United States > History.
Popular culture > United States > History.
Power (Social sciences) > United States > History.
Médias et culture > États-Unis > Histoire.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
International relations
Mass media and culture
Popular culture
Power (Social sciences)
Massenkultur
Literatur
Imperialismus
United States > Relations > Islands of the Pacific.
Islands of the Pacific > Relations > United States.
Pacifique, Îles du > Relations > États-Unis.
Pacific Ocean > Islands of the Pacific
United States
USA
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Our island frontier: the Philippines, Guam, Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, and Cuba
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Islands of empire
  • Foreign domestics: the Filipino "home front" in World War II popular culture
  • Imperial grief: loss and longing in Havana before Castro
  • Paradise, Hawaiian style: pop tourism and the
  • State of Hawai'i
  • Tropical metropolis: west side stories and colonial redemption
  • The Guam doctrine: colonial limbo in the Pacific
  • Afterword: Whither empire?
  • The colonial complex of U.S. popular culture.

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