Facing the Pacific : Polynesia and the U.S. imperial imagination

Publication Data

• Title Facing the Pacific : Polynesia and the U.S. imperial imagination
• Author Jeffrey Geiger
• Publisher University of Hawai'i Press
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location Honolulu, T.H.
• Language English

Contents

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.

Topics

• 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
• Oceania
• United States

Facing the Pacific : Polynesia and the U.S. imperial imagination by Jeffrey Geiger. ISBN 9780824830663. Published by University of Hawai'i Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.