Hollywood's South Seas and the Pacific War

Searching for Dorothy Lamour
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-11656-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 263 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

This book explores the expectations, experiences, and reactions of Allied servicemen and women who served in the wartime Pacific and viewed the South Pacific through the lens of Hollywood's South Seas. Based on extensive archival research, it explores the intersections between military experiences and cultural history.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brawley, S.

Dixon, C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Pardon My Sarong: Dorothy Lamour's Legacy The Wartime Search for the South Seas Through Hollywood's Lens: Prewar Visions of the South Pacific Wartime Tourists on a Hollywood Jungle Set: Anticipating the South Seas and Encountering the South Pacific 'Dorothy Lamour Syndrome': South Seas Dreams and South Pacific Disappointments 'That Gal's Getting Whiter Every Day': Servicemen's Encounters with Native Women Combating South Seas Disillusionment: A South Pacific Education 'Solitary Jewels' or 'Brazen, Shameless Hussies'?: Allied Women at War 'Black White Men': African-American Encounters with the Wartime Pacific Rainbow Island: Wartime Hollywood and the South Seas South Seas Savior: James A. Michener and Postwar Visions of the South Pacific The Queen of the Hollywood Islands

Über Autor(innen)

Author Sean Brawley: Sean Brawley is an associate professor of History and Associate Dean (Education) of the Faculty of Arts at the University of New South Wales (Sydney). His major publications include The White Peril: Foreign Relations and Asian Immigration to Australasia and North America, 1919-1978 and The Bondi Lifesaver: A History of an Australian Icon.
Author Chris Dixon: Chris Dixon is a reader in History at the University of Queensland. His previous publications include Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-century America, African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century, and Competing Voices from the Pacific War (with Sean Brawley and Beatrice Trefalt).