Gilligan's Island
1st Edition
Published on 15. February 2012
126 pages
978-0-8143-3647-2 (ISBN)
Description
An analysis of the under-studied sitcom Gilligan's Island that addresses key questions about American social life in the 1960s.
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Walter Metz
Gilligan's Island
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02/2012
Wayne State University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Works Cited
- Index
