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Desert islands and the liquid modern
- Title
- Desert islands and the liquid modern / Barney Samson.
- Author
- Samson, Barney
- Publication
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
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Details
- Description
- x, 139 pages : illustrations (colour); 22 cm.
- Summary
- 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 Baumans 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.
- Series Statement
- Palgrave pivot
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave pivot.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-1440
- ISBN
- 3030570452
- 9783030570453
- OCLC
- 1176327491
- Author
- Samson, Barney, author.
- Title
- Desert islands and the liquid modern / Barney Samson.
- Publisher
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Palgrave pivotPalgrave pivot.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9783030570460
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-1440