LEADER 02849nam 2200481 450 001 9910483635503321 005 20230823001513.0 010 $a3-030-57046-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-57046-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000011585995 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6404820 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-57046-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011585995 100 $a20210401d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDesert islands and the liquid modern /$fBarney Samson 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (X, 139 p. 23 illus., 18 illus. in color.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a3-030-57045-2 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aIslands in motion pictures 606 $aIslands in literature 606 $aCastaways 615 0$aIslands in motion pictures. 615 0$aIslands in literature. 615 0$aCastaways. 676 $a306.4 700 $aSamson$b Barney$01228311 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483635503321 996 $aDesert islands and the liquid modern$92851606 997 $aUNINA