Hollywood's South Seas and the Pacific war
Sean Brawley · 2012
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"Hollywood's South Seas and the Pacific War explores the expectations, experiences, and reactions of Allied servicemen and women who served in the wartime Pacific. Viewing the South Pacific through the lens of Hollywood's South Seas, Americans and their Allies expected to find glamorous women who resembled the famous "sarong girl," Dorothy Lamour. But Dorothy was nowhere to be seen. Despite those disappointments popular images proved resilient, and at war's end the "old" South Seas re-emerged almost unscathed. Based on extensive archival research, Hollywood's South Seas and the Pacific War explores the intersections between military experiences and cultural history"--
Book details
- Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 263
- ISBN
- 9780230116566
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