Islands of Empire: Pop Culture and U.S. Power
Autor Camilla Fojasen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2014
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781477307557
ISBN-10: 1477307559
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 1477307559
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Camilla Fojas is an associate professor of media studies and affiliated faculty in American studies at the University of Virginia. Her most recent books are Border Bandits: Hollywood on the Southern Frontier and Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific, coedited with Rudy Guevarra.
Cuprins
Preface. Our Island Frontier: The Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Cuba
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Islands of Empire
Chapter One. Foreign Domestics: The Filipino "Home Front" in World War II Popular Culture
Chapter Two. Imperial Grief: Loss and Longing in Havana before Castro
Chapter Three. Paradise, Hawaiian Style: Pop Tourism and the State of Hawaii
Chapter Four. Tropical Metropolis: West Side Stories and Colonial Redemption
Chapter Five. The Guam Doctrine: Colonial Limbo in the Pacific
Afterword. Whither Empire? The Colonial Complex of U.S. Popular Culture
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Islands of Empire
Chapter One. Foreign Domestics: The Filipino "Home Front" in World War II Popular Culture
Chapter Two. Imperial Grief: Loss and Longing in Havana before Castro
Chapter Three. Paradise, Hawaiian Style: Pop Tourism and the State of Hawaii
Chapter Four. Tropical Metropolis: West Side Stories and Colonial Redemption
Chapter Five. The Guam Doctrine: Colonial Limbo in the Pacific
Afterword. Whither Empire? The Colonial Complex of U.S. Popular Culture
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Recenzii
"With Islands of Empire, Fojas, a professor of Latino and Latin American Studies at Chicago’s DePaul University, shines a light through the screens of illusion that continue to form our mental picture of America’s role in world affairs."
"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 American imperialism."
"Islands of Empire may well be a very gratifying read for the wider public, beyond the strictly academic audience, as much for the writing style as for its references to the celebrated films and actors that form part of contemporary imagery."
Descriere
Examining a broad range of pop culture media—film, television, journalism, advertisements, travel writing, and literature—Fojas explores the United States as an empire and how it has narrated its relationship to its island territories.