Hard Sell of Paradise

Hard Sell of Paradise

Hawai'i, Hollywood, Tourism

Sperb, Jason

State University of New York Press

03/2022

360

Dura

Inglês

9781438487731

15 a 20 dias

227

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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
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