Title Statements
- Full title :Gilligan's Island / Walter C. Metz.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Wayne State University Press
- Place of Publication:Detroit
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (144 p.)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780814336472, 0814336477
- oclc:on1327211861
- LC Classification:PN1992.77.G53
Table of Contents
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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