Gilligan's Island
By: Walter C. Metz
Series: TV milestones series; Contemporary approaches to film and television series
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9780814333723; 9780814336472
Subjects: Gilligan's Island (Television program)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-107) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a minimalist allegory; title: The existential island; title: A boy and his whale; title: Studying Gilligan; title: An industrial history of Gilligan's Island; title: The narrative innovations of Gilligan's Island; title: Gilligan's cave; title: The skipper's war trauma; title: Gilligan fights the cold war; title: Gilligan and identity politics; title: What great books would you bring to a desert island?; title: To be Gilligan, or not to be; title: Prospero's children; title: A poke in CBS's eye: the aesthetics of Gilligan's Island; title: Gilligan goes to carnival; title: Gilligan and the short story; title: Gilligan's Island and film history; title: Gilligan's Island and performativity; title: Gilligan, the natural man; title: The afterlife of Gilligan's Island; title: Conclusion: television in the age of the DVD.