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The Hard Sell of Paradise: Hawai'i, Hollywood, Tourism

Posted By: roxul
Date: 5 May 2022 19:36:58
The Hard Sell of Paradise: Hawai'i, Hollywood, Tourism

Jason Sperb, "The Hard Sell of Paradise: Hawai'i, Hollywood, Tourism "
English | ISBN: 1438487738 | 2022 | 360 pages | PDF | 3 MB

The Hard Sell of Paradise examines how mid-twentieth-century Hollywood, negotiating the rhetoric of the tourism industry, offered a complex and contradictory vision of Hawai'i for its audiences. From the classic studio system and elite tourism of the 1930s to a postwar era of mass travel, TV, and new leisure markets, the book explores how an eclectic group of populist media reflected the language of tourism not only through its narratives of leisure, but also through its complex engagement with larger cultural and historical questions, such as colonialism, world war, and statehood. Drawing on rare archival research,
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