Lost has received widespread acclaim as one of the most innovative, intelligent, and influential dramatic series in television history. Central to Lost's success has been its capacity to evoke audience interpretations of its mysteries, undiminished even with the series' definitive conclusion. This collection of fifteen essays by critics, academics, and philosophers examines the complete series from a diverse but interconnected array of perspectives. Complementary and occasionally conflicting interpretations of the show's major themes are presented, including the role of time, fate and…mehr
Lost has received widespread acclaim as one of the most innovative, intelligent, and influential dramatic series in television history. Central to Lost's success has been its capacity to evoke audience interpretations of its mysteries, undiminished even with the series' definitive conclusion. This collection of fifteen essays by critics, academics, and philosophers examines the complete series from a diverse but interconnected array of perspectives. Complementary and occasionally conflicting interpretations of the show's major themes are presented, including the role of time, fate and determinism, masculinity, parenthood, and the threat of environmental apocalypse.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Randy Laist is a professor of English at Goodwin University and the University of Bridgeport. He has authored and edited several books on literature, popular culture, and pedagogy. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Table of Contents Introduction RANDY LAIST PART ONE: LOST IN TIME "We Have to Go Back": Temporal and Spatial Narrative Strategies ERIKA JOHNSON-LEWIS Narrative Philosophy in the Series: Fate, Determinism, and the Manipulation of Time MICHAEL RENNETT "Enslaved by Time and Space": Determinism, Traumatic Temporality, and Global Interconnectedness ARIS MOUSOUTZANIS New Space, New Time, and Newly Told Tales: Lost and The Tempest RYAN HOWE PART TWO: LOST PHILOSOPHY Lost and Becoming: Reconceptualizing Philosophy JASON M. PECK Lost in Theory: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lost but Were Afraid to Ask Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault GIANCARLO LOMBARDI "So This Is All in My Mind?" Hugo Crash-Tests the Contemporary Crusoe MATTHEW PANGBORN Primitivizing the Island: The Eclectic Collection of "Non-Western" Imagery RENEE MCGARRY PART THREE: LOST MEN AND LOST WOMEN The Lost Boys and Masculinity Found DAVID MAGILL "It Always Ends the Same": Paternal Failures HOLLY HASSEL AND NANCY L. CHICK Lost Children: Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Potential DEBORAH DAVIDSON AND WAYNE JEBIAN PART FOUR: LOST IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Lost in Capitalism: or, "Down Here Possession's Nine-Tenths" ELIZABETH LUNDBERG "Strangers in a Strange Land": Evading Environmental Apocalypse Through Human Choice CARLOS A. TARIN AND STACEY K. SOWARDS Securitizing the Island: The Other Others' Defense of Environmental Management J. L. SCHATZ We Have to Go Back: Lost After 9/11 JESSE KAVADLO About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Introduction RANDY LAIST PART ONE: LOST IN TIME "We Have to Go Back": Temporal and Spatial Narrative Strategies ERIKA JOHNSON-LEWIS Narrative Philosophy in the Series: Fate, Determinism, and the Manipulation of Time MICHAEL RENNETT "Enslaved by Time and Space": Determinism, Traumatic Temporality, and Global Interconnectedness ARIS MOUSOUTZANIS New Space, New Time, and Newly Told Tales: Lost and The Tempest RYAN HOWE PART TWO: LOST PHILOSOPHY Lost and Becoming: Reconceptualizing Philosophy JASON M. PECK Lost in Theory: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lost but Were Afraid to Ask Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault GIANCARLO LOMBARDI "So This Is All in My Mind?" Hugo Crash-Tests the Contemporary Crusoe MATTHEW PANGBORN Primitivizing the Island: The Eclectic Collection of "Non-Western" Imagery RENEE MCGARRY PART THREE: LOST MEN AND LOST WOMEN The Lost Boys and Masculinity Found DAVID MAGILL "It Always Ends the Same": Paternal Failures HOLLY HASSEL AND NANCY L. CHICK Lost Children: Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Potential DEBORAH DAVIDSON AND WAYNE JEBIAN PART FOUR: LOST IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Lost in Capitalism: or, "Down Here Possession's Nine-Tenths" ELIZABETH LUNDBERG "Strangers in a Strange Land": Evading Environmental Apocalypse Through Human Choice CARLOS A. TARIN AND STACEY K. SOWARDS Securitizing the Island: The Other Others' Defense of Environmental Management J. L. SCHATZ We Have to Go Back: Lost After 9/11 JESSE KAVADLO About the Contributors Index
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