Facing the Pacific
Subtitle: Polynesia and the U.S. imperial imagination
By: Jeffrey Geiger.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780824830663
Subjects: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The garden and the wilderness : tropes of order and disorder; title: Idylls and ruins : Frederick O'Brien in the Marquesas; title: Searching for Moana : Frances Hubbard and Robert J. Flaherty in Samoa; title: The front and back of paradise : W.S. Van Dyke and MGM in Tahiti; title: The homoerotic exotic : from C.W. Stoddard to Tabu.