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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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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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London, UK
Barney Samson
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
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