Gilligan's Island [electronic resource] / Walter C. Metz.
Material type: TextSeries: TV milestones | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (144 p.)ISBN:- 9780814336472
- 791.45/72 23
- PN1992.77.G53 M47 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: a minimalist allegory -- The existential island -- A boy and his whale -- Studying Gilligan -- An industrial history of Gilligan's Island -- The narrative innovations of Gilligan's Island -- Gilligan's cave -- The skipper's war trauma -- Gilligan fights the cold war -- Gilligan and identity politics -- What great books would you bring to a desert island? -- To be Gilligan, or not to be -- Prospero's children -- A poke in CBS's eye: the aesthetics of Gilligan's Island -- Gilligan goes to carnival -- Gilligan and the short story -- Gilligan's Island and film history -- Gilligan's Island and performativity -- Gilligan, the natural man -- The afterlife of Gilligan's Island -- Conclusion: television in the age of the DVD.
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