ISBN:
9780824862459
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource
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10 illus
DDC:
303.48/296073
Keywords:
Geschichte 1919-1931
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Imperialism in literature
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Imperialism History 20th century
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Popular culture History 20th century
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Public opinion History 20th century
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Film
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Ozeanien
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Literatur
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USA
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Aufsatzsammlung
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USA
;
Literatur
;
Film
;
Ozeanien
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Geschichte 1919-1931
Abstract:
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
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018)
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In English
DOI:
10.21313/9780824862459
DOI:
10.21313/9780824862459
URL:
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URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9780824862459
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