Desert Islands and the Liquid Modern

by Barney Samson

Book Overview

This book investigates desert islands in postwar anglophone popular culture, exploring representations in radio, print and screen advertising, magazine cartoons, cinema, video games, and comedy, drama and reality television. Drawing on Zygmunt Bauman's theory of liquid modernity, desert island texts are analysed in terms of their intersections with repressive and seductive mechanisms of power. Chapters focus on the desert island as: a conflictingly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030570452
• ISBN13: 9783030570453
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 139 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"