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<span>Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai'i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s.</span>
<span>The Hard Sell of Paradise</span><span> 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
<span>Jonah Corne</span><span> is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film, and Media at the University of Manitoba. </span><span>Monika VreΔar</span><span> is an independent scholar who holds a PhD in Philosophy and Theory of Visual Culture from the University of Primorska, S
<span>Director of over 150 films from 1912 to 1964, Raoul Walsh was a core figure in Hollywood from its beginnings to the end of the studio system. Perhaps best known for such films as </span><span>The Big Trail</span><span> (starring John Wayne in his first leading role), </span><span>High Sierra</
<span>Looks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban planning in midcentury New York.</span>
<i>Uses comedy skits, from <i>Monty Python</i> to <i>Key and Peele</i>, to probe how humor works.</i> What makes something funny? This book shows how humor can be analyzed without killing the joke. Alex Clayton argues that the brevity of a sketch or skit and its typical rejection of narrative devel