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OverviewThis 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 in/coherent space that characterises identity as deferred and structured by choice; a location whose ‘remoteness’ undermines satirical critiques of communal identity formation; a site whose ambivalent relationship with ‘home’ and Otherness destabilises patriarchal ‘Western’ subjectivity; a space bound up with mobility and instantaneity; and an expression of radical individuality and underdetermined identity. The desert island in popular culture is shown to reflect, endorse and critique a profoundly consumerist society that seduces uswith promises of coherence, with the threat of repression looming if we do not conform. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Barney SamsonPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2020 Weight: 0.209kg ISBN: 9783030570484ISBN 10: 3030570487 Pages: 139 Publication Date: 22 November 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: What is a desert island?.- 1. Wartime and rationing: desert island escapes and escapades.- 2. After the war: rebuilding society on the desert island.- 3. A decade of decadence: consuming (on) the desert island.- 4. Failing fantasies: The desert island at the turn of the twentieth century.- 5. Swept away: twenty-first century fluid identities and dissolving desert islands.- Afterword.ReviewsAuthor InformationBarney Samson has lectured in Literature, Film Studies and Communication & Culture at the University of Essex, the University of Roehampton, Middlesex University and City, University of London, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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