It takes the average reader 7 hours and 52 minutes to read The Hard Sell of Paradise by Jason Sperb
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The Hard Sell of Paradise 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 travel, TV, and new leisure markets, the book explores how an eclectic group of populist media reflected the language of tourism not only through its narratives of leisure, but also through its complex engagement with larger cultural and historical questions, such as colonialism, world war, and statehood. Drawing...
The Hard Sell of Paradise by Jason Sperb is 458 pages long, and a total of 118,164 words.
This makes it 155% the length of the average book. It also has 144% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 45 minutes to read The Hard Sell of Paradise aloud.
The Hard Sell of Paradise is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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