Facing the Pacific

Acknowledgments

vii T his book could never have been completed without the support and guidance I’ve had over the (too many) years spent on the project. This includes sabbatical leaves provided by the University of Essex and support from the university’s Research Promotion Fund, as well as the assistance of an Arts and Humanities Research Council Leave Fellowship. I also owe a great debt to the following individuals and organizations for generously providing time, resources, and practical advice: Phil Frank of the Sausalito Historical Society; Patricia Keats of the California Historical Society of San Francisco ; Sue Hodson of the Huntington Museum and Library, Pasadena; Scott Curtis , Barbara Hall, and especially Faye Thompson of the Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Jack Coogan of the Robert and Frances Flaherty Study Center at Claremont College; the Marin County Historical Society in California; the Butler Library at Columbia University; the Rush Rhees Library and Special Collections at the University of Rochester; Helen Pecheniuk at the National Library of Australia; the UCLA Film and Television archives; the Bancroft Library collections, University of California, Berkeley; the British Film Institute and library; and the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Thanks also to Elizabeth Deloughrey and the Pasifika list and to Jane Moulin for help with Marquesan language questions. Bette London and Frank Shuffelton hosted me as a visiting scholar on two occasions at the University of Rochester, giving me access to library facilities and Eastman House screenings that exposed me to resources I certainly would have missed otherwise. Many thanks to Masako Ikeda at the University of Hawai‘i Press, for her enthusiasm and insights through each stage of the publication process; thanks also to Joanne Sandstrom and Ann Ludeman for their work on the manuscript. I’ve been lucky enough to be part of a warm and congenial department at Essex, so I want to extend thanks to them for keeping it sane. I’m especially indebted to Peter Hulme, Fiona Venn, Rod Edmond, and the anonymous readers at the University of Hawai‘i Press for their generous and detailed feedback, but would note that any errors or omissions that still remain are wholly the result of my own oversights. Acknowledgments viii Acknowledgments The following people, too, provided intellectual and professional support, inspiration , or just good conversation along the way: Valerie Smith, Sam Weber, Teshome Gabriel,MarthaBanta,ElizabethCowie,SharonWillis,JohnMichael,TomDiPiero, Morris and Georgia Eaves, Rachel Lee, Jonathan White, Francis Barker, Karin Littau , Iain Hamilton Grant, Shohini Chaudhuri, Colin Samson, Nicola Gray, Ken Plummer, Everard Longland, Jane Hindley, Cristina Fumagalli, John Gillies, Patricia Gillies, Graham Huggan, Sue Dobinson, Elena Coda, Randy Rutsky, Marilyn Manners, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Sarika Chandra, and Shelley Salamensky. But my greatest debt is to Hal Gladfelder, for sticking with me through the ups and downs of completing this book. My far-flung family—my sister Nanci, my mother, my brother David and family, and Sue Banchero and family—all deserve thanks for their patience. I want to dedicate this book to my dear, and dearly missed, friend, Arthur Howes.  chapters 3 and 4 contain revised sections from articles that appeared elsewhere. Part of chapter 3 was published by the University of Texas Press as “Imagined Islands: White Shadows in the South Seas and Cultural Ambivalence,”Cinema Journal 41.3 (Spring 2002), 98–121. Part of chapter 4 appeared as“Subaltern Looks and the Imperial Gaze: Charles Warren Stoddard’s South Sea Idyls” in Indiscretions: At the Intersection of Queer and Postcolonial Theory, ed. Murat Aydemir (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007). ...