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, an.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
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