Desert Islands and the Liquid Modern



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Palgrave Pivot


Paru le : 2020-11-21



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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.



Pages
139 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2020-11-21
Marque
Palgrave Pivot
EAN papier
9783030570453
EAN PDF
9783030570460

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1
Nombre pages imprimables
13
Taille du fichier
3973 Ko
Prix
52,74 €
EAN EPUB
9783030570460

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Nombre pages copiables
1
Nombre pages imprimables
13
Taille du fichier
9605 Ko
Prix
52,74 €

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