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Desert Islands and the Liquid Modern

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Desert Islands and the Liquid Modern/ by Barney Samson.
Author:	Samson, Barney.
Description:	X, 139 p. 23 illus., 18 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Popular Culture. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57046-0
ISBN:	9783030570460

Desert Islands and the Liquid Modern
Samson, Barney.

Desert Islands and the Liquid Modern[electronic resource] /by Barney Samson. - 1st ed. 2020. - X, 139 p. 23 illus., 18 illus. in color.online resource.

Introduction: 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.

This book investigates desert islands in postwar anglophone popular culture, exploring representations in radio, print and screen advertising, magazine cartoons, television comedy and drama, cinema, and video games. 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 us with promises of coherence, with the threat of repression looming if we do not conform.

ISBN: 9783030570460

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-57046-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1115695
Popular Culture.

LC Class. No.: HM621-656

Dewey Class. No.: 306

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