Hollywood's South Seas and the Pacific war : searching for Dorothy Lamour, Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon

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Label

Hollywood's South Seas and the Pacific war : searching for Dorothy Lamour, Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon

Title remainder

searching for Dorothy Lamour

Statement of responsibility

Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon

Instantiates

• Hollywood's South Seas and the Pacific war : searching for Dorothy Lamour

Publication

• New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Introduction: The wartime search for the South Seas -- Through Hollywood's lens : prewar visions of the South Pacific -- Wartime tourists on a Hollywood jungle set : anticipating the South Seas and encountering the South Pacific -- 'Dorothy Lamour Syndrome" : South Seas dreams and South Pacific disappointments -- "That gal's getting whiter every day" : servicemen's encounters with Islander women -- Combating South Seas disillusionment : a South Pacific education -- "Solitary jewels" or "Brazen, shameless hussies"? : Allied women in the wartime Pacific -- "Black white men" : African American encounters with the wartime Pacific -- Rainbow Island : wartime Hollywood and the South Seas -- South Seas savior : James A. Michener and postwar visions of the South Pacific -- Conclusion: The Queen of the Hollywood Islands

Control code

ocn757475530

Dimensions

23 cm

Edition

1st ed

Extent

xv, 263 p.

Isbn

9780230116566

Lccn

2012002900

Record ID

.b24990632

System control number

(OCoLC)757475530