Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Hollywood's South Seas and the Pacific war : searching for Dorothy Lamour
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Place
Date
2012?
Physical Description
ISBN/ISSN
9780230116566
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
1. Through Hollywood's lens: prewar visions of the South Pacific
2. Wartime tourists on a Hollywood jungle set: anticipating the South Seas and encountering the South Pacific
3. "Dorothy Lamour syndrome": South Seas dreams and South Pacific disappointments
4. "That gal's getting whiter every day": servicemen's encountes with islander women
5. Combating South Seas disillusionment: a South Pacific education
6. "Solitary jewels" or "brazen, shameless hussies"? Allied women in the wartime Pacific
7. "Black white men": African American encounters with the wartime Pacific
8. Rainbow Island: wartime Hollywood and the South Seas
9. South Seas savior: James A. Michener and postwar vision of the South Pacific.
Public Access Text
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index.
Collection Type
Pou Maumahara
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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