Table of contents : Acknowledgements Contents List of Figures 1 Introducing the Liquid Modern Desert Island 1.1 Island-Ness and Desertedness 1.2 Solid and Liquid Modernities References 2 (In)Coherent Desert Islands: Desert Island Discs and Bounty Chocolate in Print 2.1 Desert Island Discs 2.2 Bounty Chocolate in Print References 3 Community on the Desert Island: The New Yorker Cartoons and Gilligan’s Island 3.1 The New Yorker Cartoons 3.2 Gilligan’s Island References 4 Repression and Seduction: The Blue Lagoon and Bounty Chocolate on Screen 4.1 The Blue Lagoon 4.2 Bounty Chocolate on Screen References 5 Mobility, Instantaneity and the Desert Island: Cast Away and Lost 5.1 Cast Away 5.2 Lost References 6 Anxiety and Eroticism on the Desert Island: Dear Esther and Love Island 6.1 Dear Esther 6.2 Love Island References Index