TY - BOOK AU - Metz,Walter ED - Project Muse. TI - Gilligan's Island T2 - TV milestones SN - 9780814336472 AV - PN1992.77.G53 M47 2012 U1 - 791.45/72 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Detroit PB - Wayne State University Press KW - Gilligan's Island (Television program) KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814336472/ ER -