Sperb The Hard Sell of Paradise

Hawai'i, Hollywood, Tourism
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8775-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai’i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sperb, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Touristic Visions and Virtual Tourists

1. Save That Gag for the Tourists: The Hawaii Tourist Bureau and Post-tourism Narratives of 1930s Hollywood

2. Twilight of the Past, Island of Utopia: December 7th and the Contradictions of War Nostalgia

3. You're Still Talking about Class? Adapting for Statehood in Diamond Head (1963)

4. Founded on Truth but Not on Fact: Pastiche Narratives of Modernity in Adaptations of James Michener's Hawaii (1959)

5. Business or Pleasure: The Touristic Contradictions of the Elvis/Hawai'i Experience from Blue Hawaii (1961) to Aloha from Hawaii (1973)

6. Shoot All Winter, Show All Summer: Frontier Mythologies and the Hipster Tourism of Surf Documentaries

7. If You Can't Find It, Don't Write It: Genre and Competing Notions of Realism in Hawaii Five-O (1968)

Conclusion: Hawai'i Bound

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jason Sperb teaches English at Oklahoma State University. His previous books include Disney's Most Notorious Film: Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South; Flickers of Film: Nostalgia in the Time of Digital Cinema; and Blossoms and Blood: Postmodern Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson.