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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464511303321

Autore

Fojas Camilla <1971->

Titolo

Islands of empire : pop culture and U.S. power / / Camilla Fojas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-292-75631-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Disciplina

302.23/0973

Soggetti

Mass media and culture - United States - History

Popular culture - United States - History

Power (Social sciences) - United States - History

Electronic books.

United States Relations Islands of the Pacific

Islands of the Pacific Relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface: Our island frontier: the Philippines, Guam, Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, and Cuba -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Islands of empire -- Foreign domestics: the Filipino "home front" in World War II popular culture -- Imperial grief: loss and longing in Havana before Castro -- Paradise, Hawaiian style: pop tourism and the -- State of Hawai'i -- Tropical metropolis: west side stories and colonial redemption -- The Guam doctrine: colonial limbo in the Pacific -- Afterword: Whither empire? -- The colonial complex of U.S. popular culture.