{"product_id":"facing-the-pacific-jeffrey-a-geiger-9780824830663","title":"Facing the Pacific: Polynesia and the U.S. Imperial Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe enduring popularity of Polynesia in western literature, art, and film attests to the pleasures that Pacific islands have, over the centuries, afforded the consuming gaze of the west--connoting solitude, release from cares, and, more recently, self-renewal away from urbanized modern life. Facing the Pacific is the first study to offer a detailed look at the United States' intense engagement with the myth of the South Seas just after the First World War, when, at home, a popular vogue for all things Polynesian seemed to echo the expansion of U.S. imperialist activities abroad. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJeffrey Geiger looks at a variety of texts that helped to invent a vision of Polynesia for U.S. audiences, focusing on a group of writers and filmmakers whose mutual fascination with the South Pacific drew them together--and would eventually drive some of them apart. Key figures discussed in this volume are Frederick O'Brien, author of the bestseller White Shadows in the South Seas; filmmaker Robert Flaherty and his wife, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, who collaborated on Moana; director W. S. Van Dyke, who worked with Robert Flaherty on MGM's adaptation of White Shadows; and Expressionist director F. W. Murnau, whose last film, Tabu, was co-directed with Flaherty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey A. Geiger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0824830660\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780824830663\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Hawaii Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.23h x 6.34w x 1.01d","brand":"Jeffrey A. Geiger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48453414813951,"sku":"9780824830663","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c83543ef-cce3-4e21-a068-6544974bfdc0.jpg?v=1777300093","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/facing-the-pacific-jeffrey-a-geiger-9780824830663","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}