Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett

Hollywood's Hawaii

Race, Nation, and War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.   

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 439g
• ISBN-13: 9780813587431
• ISBN-10: 0813587433
• Artikelnr.: 45802177

Autorenporträt

DELIA MALIA CAPAROSO KONZETT is an associate professor of English, cinema, and women’s studies at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. She is the author of Ethnic Modernisms: Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Dislocation.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
 
Introduction The American Empire in the South Pacific and Its
Representation in Hollywood Cinema: 1898–Present
1 The South Pacific and Hawaii on Screen: Territorial Expansion and
Cinematic Colonialism
2 World War II Hawaii: Orientalism and the American Century
3 Postwar Hawaii and the Birth of the Military Industrial Complex
Conclusion Hawaii in Contemporary Cinema and Television: The New Cultural
Amnesia
 
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index