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Camilla Fojas explores a broad range of popular culture media—film, television, journalism, advertisements, travel writing, and literature—with an eye toward how the United States as an empire imagined its own military and economic projects. Impressive in its scope, Islands of Empire looks to Cuba, Guam, Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, asking how popular narratives about these island outposts expressed the attitudes of the continent throughout the twentieth century. Through deep textual readings of Bataan , Victory at Sea , They Were Expendable , and Back to Bataan (Philippines); No Man Is an Island and Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon (Guam); Cuba , Havana , and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (Cuba); Blue Hawaii , Gidget Goes Hawaiian , and Paradise, Hawaiian Style (Hawai'i); and West Side Story , Fame , and El Cantante (Puerto Rico), Fojas demonstrates how popular texts are inseparable from U.S. imperialist ideology. Drawing on an impressive array of archival evidence to provide historical context, Islands of Empire reveals the role of popular culture in creating and maintaining U.S. imperialism. Fojas's textual readings deftly move from location t

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Author

Camilla, Fojas,

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292756304

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Sociology