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v Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 The Garden and the Wilderness: Tropes of Order and Disorder 18 2 Idylls and Ruins: Frederick O’Brien in the Marquesas 74 3 Searching for Moana: Frances Hubbard and Robert J. Flaherty in Samoa 118 4 The Front and Back of Paradise: W. S.Van Dyke and MGM in Tahiti 160 5 The Homoerotic Exotic: From C.W. Stoddard to Tabu 192 Afterword 227 Notes 233 Bibliography 273 Index 297 Contents ...

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