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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction The American Empire in the South Pacific and Its Representation in Hollywood Cinema: 1898–Present1 The South Pacific and Hawaii on Screen: Territorial Expansion and Cinematic Colonialism2 World War II Hawaii: Orientalism and the American Century3 Postwar Hawaii and the Birth of the Military Industrial ComplexConclusion Hawaii in Contemporary Cinema and Television: The New Cultural Amnesia NotesSelected BibliographyIndex
