Kuttainen, Victoria, Liebich, Susann, and Galletly, Sarah (2015) Place, platform, and value: periodicals and the Pacific in late colonial modernity. English Studies in Canada, 41 (1). pp. 155-177.

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Abstract

In the interwar period, the Pacific Ocean was crisscrossed by hundreds of passenger liners, and island themes and settings splashed across the silver screen and the pages of glossy magazines. New technology produced new touristic engagements with the region that reproduced the age old themes of colonial adventure but in nuanced ways that were sensitive to rapidly changing cultural values as the new media of film and photography reached critical saturation. This article considers the way that magazines, as inherently intermedial forms, were hinge platforms that showcased and facilitated a number of differently mediated encounters with this rapidly modernizing frontier, the last ocean to open up to mass transportation. Changing media values and familiarity with the region in late colonial modernity, we argue, were different on each side of the ocean, as were the cultural associations and levels of familiarity with the region and Hollywood. In this article we consider the space and place of the Pacific in two different magazines published across the Pacific basin in late colonial modernity: America's Sunset(1898-) and Australia's The BP Magazine (1928-1942).

Item ID:	40654
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1913-4835
Funders:	Margaret and Colin Roderick
Date Deposited:	24 Nov 2015 23:27
FoR Codes:	20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2005 Literary Studies > 200502 Australian Literature (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature) @ 30% 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2005 Literary Studies > 200506 North American Literature @ 30% 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2001 Communication and Media Studies > 200104 Media Studies @ 40%
SEO Codes:	95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9502 Communication > 950204 The Media @ 40% 95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9502 Communication > 950203 Languages and Literature @ 60%
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