LEADER 04126nam 2200661 450 001 9910789153003321 005 20230126211825.0 010 $a0-292-75631-3 024 7 $a10.7560/756304 035 $a(CKB)3710000000081484 035 $a(EBL)3443715 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001084536 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11683010 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001084536 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11035276 035 $a(PQKB)10092059 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443715 035 $a(OCoLC)867630894 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse34475 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443715 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10823670 035 $a(OCoLC)856579527 035 $a(DE-B1597)588028 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292756311 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000081484 100 $a20140118d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIslands of empire $epop culture and U.S. power /$fCamilla Fojas 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAustin, Texas :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (254 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-292-75630-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface: 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. 330 $aCamilla Fojas explores a broad range of popular culture media?film, television, journalism, advertisements, travel writing, and literature?with an eye toward how the United States as an empire imagined its own military and economic projects. Impressive in its scope, Islands of Empire looks to Cuba, Guam, Hawai?i, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, asking how popular narratives about these island outposts expressed the attitudes of the continent throughout the twentieth century. Through deep textual readings of Bataan, Victory at Sea, They Were Expendable, and Back to Bataan (Philippines); No Man Is an Island and Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon (Guam); Cuba, Havana, and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (Cuba); Blue Hawaii, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, and Paradise, Hawaiian Style (Hawai?i); and West Side Story, Fame, and El Cantante (Puerto Rico), Fojas demonstrates how popular texts are inseparable from U.S. imperialist ideology. Drawing on an impressive array of archival evidence to provide historical context, Islands of Empire reveals the role of popular culture in creating and maintaining U.S. imperialism. Fojas?s textual readings deftly move from location to location, exploring each island?s relationship to the United States and its complementary role in popular culture. Tracing each outpost?s varied and even contradictory political status, Fojas demonstrates that these works of popular culture mirror each location?s shifting alignment to the U.S. empire, from coveted object to possession to enemy state. 606 $aMass media and culture$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPower (Social sciences)$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xRelations$zIslands of the Pacific 607 $aIslands of the Pacific$xRelations$zUnited States 615 0$aMass media and culture$xHistory. 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory. 615 0$aPower (Social sciences)$xHistory. 676 $a302.23/0973 700 $aFojas$b Camilla$f1971-$01466950 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789153003321 996 $aIslands of empire$93850624 997 $aUNINA