Gilligan Unbound

Gilligan Unbound
Author: Paul Arthur Cantor
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2003
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780742507791

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"Cantor demonstrates how, during the 1960s, Gilligan's Island and Star Trek reflected America's faith in liberal democracy and our willingness to project it universally. Gilligan's Island, Cantor argues, is based on the premise that a representative group of Americans could literally be dumped in the middle of nowhere and still prevail under the worst of circumstances. Star Trek took American optimism even further by trying to make the entire galaxy safe for democracy. Despite the famous Prime Directive, Captain Kirk and his crew remade planet after planet in the image of an idealized 1960s America."--BOOK JACKET.


Gilligan Unbound
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Paul Arthur Cantor
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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"Cantor demonstrates how, during the 1960s, Gilligan's Island and Star Trek reflected America's faith in liberal democracy and our willingness to project it uni
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-17 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Published in 1719, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistentl
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Pages: 490
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