Looking for Lost
Subtitle: critical essays on the enigmatic series
By: edited by Randy Laist
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780786447169
Subjects: Lost (Television program)
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Randy Laist; title: Lost in Time. "We have to go back": temporal and spatial narrative strategies / Erika Johnson-Lewis; title: Narrative philosophy in the series: fate, determinism, and the manipulation of time / Michael Rennett; title: "Enslaved by time and space": determinism, traumatic temporality, and global interconnectedness / Aris Mousoutzanis; title: New space, new time, and newly told tales: Lost and The tempest / Ryan Howe; title: Lost philosophy. Lost and becoming : reconceptualizing philosophy / Jason M. Peck; title: Lost in theory : everything you always wanted to know about Lost but were afraid to ask Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault / Giancarlo Lombardi; title: "So this is all in my mind?": Hugo crash-tests the contemporary Crusoe / Matthew Pangborn; title: Primitivizing the island: the eclectic collection of "non-western" imagery / Renee McGarry; title: Lost men and Lost women. The Lost boys and masculinity found / David Magill; title: "It always ends the same": paternal failures / Holly Hassel and Nancy L. Chick; title: Lost children: pregnancy, parenthood, and potential / Deborah Davidson and Wayne Jebian; title: Lost in the twenty-first century. Lost in capitalism, or, "Down here possession's nine-tenths" / Elizabeth Lundberg; title: "Strangers in a strange land": evading environmental apocalypse through human choice / Carlos A. Tarin and Stacey K. Sowards; title: Securitizing the island: the other others' defense of environmental management / J.L. Schatz; title: We have to go back: Lost after 9/11 / Jesse Kavadlo.