Overview
- Argues that the desert island is a superlative icon of contemporary existence
- Examines desert islands in radio, print and screen advertising, magazine cartoons, television comedy and drama, cinema, and video games
- Analyses popular postwar texts, drawing on Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of liquid modernity
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Barney 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.
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Book Title: Desert Islands and the Liquid Modern
Authors: Barney Samson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57046-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57045-3Published: 22 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57048-4Published: 22 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-57046-0Published: 21 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 139
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Culture , Screen Studies