Hollywood's Hawaii : Race, Nation, and War /

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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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Konzett, Delia Caparoso (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race relations in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
Motion pictures.
Motion picture locations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Relations raciales au cinema.
Cinema > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Cinema > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Exterieurs (Cinema) > Hawaii.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Motion picture locations > Oceana.
Motion picture locations > Hawaii.
United States.
Oceania.
Hawaii.
Oceanie > Au cinema.
Oceania > In motion pictures.
Hawaii > In motion pictures.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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