This volume provides the fullest report on new world history research to date. In clear and lively prose, thirteen specialists in world history present their findings in three interconnected sections: the politics of empires and nations, the patterns of global migration, and the social struggles revealed through interdisciplinary analysis. Patrick Manning, a leading advocate of world historical analysis, highlights linkages among the book's findings and provides recommendations for institutions and individuals embarking on the study of world history.

World history : global and local interactions

In the area formerly administered as the United States Trust Territory of the Pacifi c Islands, there began appearing during the mid-1970s t-shirts in assorted solid and primary colors with the following questions printed on them: "Where the hell is Yap?" "Where the hell is Ponape?" "Where the hell is Palau?" "Kusaie?" "Truk?" "Majuro?" Motivations and under- standings varied among wearers and beholders. For some, these t-shirts were asking the larger question, "Where the hell is Micronesia?" and, by extension, "What the hell is Micronesia?" This is an essay that asks these same larger questions, "Where, and what the hell is Micronesia?" but in relation to the changing fi eld of Pacifi c studies. I would characterize Micronesia's current place within the fi eld of Pacifi c studies as one of relative absence or, at best, minimal inclusion. Microne- sia certainly does not want for writings about it; the number of scholarly monographs, articles, and reports is considerable. In their edited volume American Anthropology in Micronesia (1999), Robert C Kiste and Mac Marshall described the larger history of anthropological research in the region. Their bibliography, descriptions, and participant rosters of post- war anthropological research projects and lists of doctoral dissertations in Micronesian anthropology indicate just how extensive that research has been. But these works constitute an archive or library apart. In his review of case-study citations in introductory anthropology texts for the Kiste and Marshall volume, Terence Hays wrote that Micronesia has only occa- sionally "captured the attention of authors and entered the mental worlds

The "Sea of Little Lands": Examining Micronesia's Place in "Our Sea of Islands"

Bibliography of Books and Articles Published in English on Colonialism and Imperialism in 2011

Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature

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Blockchain imperialism in the Pacific

In these 44 critical reviews, contributors examine American, European, and international films as artifacts of their times, as indicators of changes and innovations in ways of thinking about and approaching reality, and as influences upon each other and on the viewer. Starting with the silent but startling Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat of 1895 and ending with the sometimes silent but many times more startling All About My Mother of 1999, and including every director from Griffith to Keaton, Eisenstein to Capra, Welles, Ford, De Sica, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Ray, Bergman, Truffaut, Kubrick, Fassbinder, Scorsese, Polanski, Zhang Yimou, Spike Lee and Julie Dash, the critics give undergraduates a basic idea of the contexts, contents, themes, narrative devices, and critical reactions for each film, and references for further reading.

Film analysis : a Norton reader

The enduring popularity of Polynesia in western literature, art, and film attests to the pleasures that Pacific islands have, over the centuries, afforded the consuming gaze of the westa??connoting solitude, release from cares, and, more recently, self-renewal away from urbanized modern life. Facing the Pacific is the first study to offer a detailed look at the United Statesa?? intense engagement with the myth of the South Seas just after the First World War, when, at home, a popular vogue for all things Polynesian seemed to echo the expansion of U.S. imperialist activities abroad. Jeffrey Geiger looks at a variety of texts that helped to invent a vision of Polynesia for U.S. audiences, focusing on a group of writers and filmmakers whose mutual fascination with the South Pacific drew them togethera??and would eventually drive some of them apart. Key figures discussed in this volume are Frederick Oa??Brien, author of the bestseller White Shadows in the South Seas; filmmaker Robert Flaherty and his wife, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, who collaborated on Moana; director W. S. Van Dyke, who worked with Robert Flaherty on MGMa??s adaptation of White Shadows; and Expressionist director F. W. Murnau, whose last film, Tabu, was co-directed with Flaherty.

Facing the Pacific: Polynesia and the U.S. imperial imagination

What key concerns are reflected in documentaries produced in and about the United States? How have documentaries engaged with competing visions of US history, culture, politics, and national identity? This book examines how documentary films have contributed to the American public sphere& -creating a kind of public space, serving as sites for community-building, public expression, and social innovation. Geiger focuses on how documentaries have been significant in forming ideas of the nation, both as an imagined space and a real place Moving from the dawn of cinema to the present day, this is the first full-length study to focus on the extensive range and history of American non-fiction filmmaking. Combining comprehensive overviews with in-depth case studies, Geiger maps American documentary's intricate histories, examining the impact of pre- and early cinema, travelogues, the avant-garde, 1930s social documentary, propaganda, direct cinema, postmodernism, and 'new' documentary. Offering detailed close analyses and fresh insights, this book provides students and scholars with a stimulating guide to American documentary, reminding us of its important place in cinema history. Key Features Historical overview of major documentary forms and practices in the USACase studies, including Nanook of the North, The Plow that Broke the Plains, Grey Gardens, and Fahrenheit 9/11Analysis of critical debates relating to filmic representations of reality

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American Documentary Film: Projecting the Nation

Introduction: Cinematicity and Comparative Media, Jeffrey Geiger and Karin Littau, both at the University of Essex Part 1 - Cinematicity Before Cinema 1. Dickensian 'Dissolving Views': The Magic Lantern, Visual Story-Telling, and the Victorian Technological Imagination, Joss Marsh, Indiana University, Bloomington 2. 'Never Has One Seen Reality Enveloped in Such a Phantasmagoria': Watching Spectacular Transformations, 1860-1889, Kristian Moen, University of Bristol 3. Moving-Picture Media and Modernity: Taking Intermediate and Ephemeral Forms Seriously, Ian Christie, Birkbeck College Part 2 - Transitions: Early Cinema and Cinematicity 4. Reading in the Age of Edison: The Cinematicity of 'The Yellow Wall-paper', Karin Littau, University of Essex 5. Time and Motion Studies: Joycean Cinematicity in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Keith B. Williams, University of Dundee 6. Nature Caught in the Act: On the Transformation of an Idea of Art in Early Cinema, Nico Baumbach, Columbia University School of the Arts Part 3 - Cinematicity in the 'Classic' Cinema Age 7. Cinematicity of Speech and Visibility of Literature: The Poetics of Soviet Film Scripts of the Early Sound Film Era, Anke Hennig, Freie Universitat Berlin 8. Making America Global: Cinematicity and the Aerial View, Jeffrey Geiger, University of Essex 9. Invisible Cities, Visible Cinema: Illuminating Shadows in Late Film Noir, Tom Gunning, University of Chicago Part 4 - Digital Cinematicity 10. Cinema, Video, Game: Astonishing Aesthetics and the Cinematic 'Future' of Computer Graphics' Past, Leon Gurevitch, Victoria University of Wellington 11. Miniature Pleasures: On Watching Films on an iPhone, Martine Beugnet, University of Paris 7 Diderot 12. Kino-Eye in Reverse: Visualizing Cinema, Lev Manovich, The City University of New York.

Cinematicity in Media History

This essay examines the ways that W. S. Van Dyke's island romance, White Shadows in the South Seas (1928), reveals the imprint of both desire and anxiety at the heart of American representations of the South Pacific. The film also highlights the transitional and contradictory nature of American cultural, racial, and sexual discourses of the 1920s.

Jeffrey Geiger

Papers

Film analysis : a Norton reader

Facing the Pacific: Polynesia and the U.S. imperial imagination

American Documentary Film: Projecting the Nation

Cinematicity in Media History

Imagined Islands: White Shadows in the South Seas and Cultural Ambivalence