TY - BOOK AU - Geiger,Jeffrey TI - Facing the Pacific: Polynesia and the U.S. imperial imagination SN - 0824830660 AV - DU30 .G45 2007 U1 - 303.48296073 22 PY - 2007///] CY - Honolulu PB - University of Hawaii Press KW - Imperialism KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Public opinion KW - United States KW - Popular culture KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Imperialism in motion pictures N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-296) and index; The garden and the wilderness : tropes of order and disorder -- Idylls and ruins : Frederick O'Brien in the Marquesas -- Searching for Moana : Frances Hubbard and Robert J. Flaherty in Samoa -- The front and back of paradise : W.S. Van Dyke and MGM in Tahiti -- The homoerotic exotic : from C.W. Stoddard to Tabu -- --; 1; The garden and the wilderness : tropes of order and disorder --; 2; Idylls and ruins : Frederick O'Brien in the Marquesas --; 3; Searching for Moana : Frances Hubbard and Robert J. Flaherty in Samoa --; 4; The front and back of paradise : W. S. Van Dyke and MGM in Tahiti --; 5; The homoerotic exotic : from C. W. Stoddard to Tabu ER -