Looking for Lost : critical essays on the enigmatic series / edited by Randy Laist.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laist, Randy, 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lost (Television program).

Physical Description:

viii, 252 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2011]

Summary:

"This collection of fifteen essays by critics, academics, and philosophers examines the complete Lost 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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Randy Laist

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

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

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786447169

0786447168

OCLC:

689522279