The Hard Sell of Paradise
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The Hard Sell of Paradise

Hawai'i, Hollywood, Tourism

Jason Sperb

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The Hard Sell of Paradise

Hawai'i, Hollywood, Tourism

Jason Sperb

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About This Book

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, The Hard Sell of Paradise also explores the valuable role that tourism partners such as United Airlines, Matson Cruise Lines, and the Hawaii Tourist Bureau played in directly and indirectly influencing such films and television shows as Waikiki Wedding, Diamond Head, Blue Hawaii, The Endless Summer, and Hawaii Five-O.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781438487755
Topic
Medien & darstellende Kunst
Subtopic
Filmgeschichte & Filmkritik

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Touristic Visions and Virtual Tourists
  8. 1 Save That Gag for the Tourists: The Hawaii Tourist Bureau and Post-tourism Narratives of 1930s Hollywood
  9. 2 Twilight of the Past, Island of Utopia: December 7th and the Contradictions of War Nostalgia
  10. 3 You’re Still Talking about Class? Adapting for Statehood in Diamond Head (1963)
  11. 4 Founded on Truth but Not on Fact: Pastiche Narratives of Modernity in Adaptations of James Michener’s Hawaii (1959)
  12. 5 Business or Pleasure: The Touristic Contradictions of the Elvis/Hawai‘i Experience from Blue Hawaii (1961) to Aloha from Hawaii (1973)
  13. 6 Shoot All Winter, Show All Summer: Frontier Mythologies and the Hipster Tourism of Surf Documentaries
  14. 7 If You Can’t Find It, Don’t Write It: Genre and Competing Notions of Realism in Hawaii Five-O (1968)
  15. Conclusion: Hawai‘i Bound
  16. Notes
  17. Selected Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Back Cover
Citation styles for The Hard Sell of Paradise

APA 6 Citation

Sperb, J. (2022). The Hard Sell of Paradise ([edition unavailable]). State University of New York Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3042898/the-hard-sell-of-paradise-hawaii-hollywood-tourism-pdf (Original work published 2022)

Chicago Citation

Sperb, Jason. (2022) 2022. The Hard Sell of Paradise. [Edition unavailable]. State University of New York Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/3042898/the-hard-sell-of-paradise-hawaii-hollywood-tourism-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Sperb, J. (2022) The Hard Sell of Paradise. [edition unavailable]. State University of New York Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3042898/the-hard-sell-of-paradise-hawaii-hollywood-tourism-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Sperb, Jason. The Hard Sell of Paradise. [edition unavailable]. State University of New York Press, 2022. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.