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1019114
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b773484
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Geiger, Jeffrey.
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Facing the Pacific : : Polynesia and the U.S. imperial imagination /\ Jeffrey Geiger.
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| Publication Statement
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Honolulu :: University of Hawaiʻi Press,, ©2007.
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1 online resource (viii, 303 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0824862457
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: 1435666321
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: 9780824862459
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: 9781435666320
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0824830660
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9780824830663
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-296) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism in motion pictures.
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Imperialism-- History-- 20th century.
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Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Public opinion-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism in motion pictures.
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Imperialism.
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International relations.
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Literature.
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Motion pictures.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Globalization.
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Popular culture.
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Public opinion, American.
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Public opinion.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Sociology-- General.
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Oceania, Foreign public opinion, American.
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Oceania, In literature.
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Oceania, In motion pictures.
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Oceania, Relations, United States.
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United States, Relations, Oceania.
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Oceania.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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303.48/296073
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| LC Classification
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DU30.G45 2007eb
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