• Gilligan's Island
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Author: MetzWalter, 1967-
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    Place of Publication: Detroit
    Published: Wayne State University Press;
    Year of Publication: 2012
    Description: 1 online resource (144 p.).
    Series: TV milestones
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814336472/
    Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    ISBN: 9780814336472electronic bk.
    ISBN: 9780814333723pbk.
    Content Note: 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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