| 書(shū)目名稱(chēng) | Desert Islands and the Liquid Modern | | 編輯 | Barney Samson | | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/269/268320/268320.mp4 | | 概述 | 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, an | | 圖書(shū)封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book investigates desert islands in postwar anglophone popular culture, exploring representations in radio, print and screen advertising, magazine cartoons, cinema, video games, and comedy, drama and reality television. 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 uswith promises of coherence, with the threat of repression looming if we do not conform.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | | 關(guān)鍵詞 | Desert Island; Postwar; Anglophone; Screen Advertising; Magazine Cartoon; Liquid Modernity | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57046-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-57048-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-57046-0 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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