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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsIntroductionRANDY LAIST PART ONE: LOST IN TIME"We Have to Go Back": Temporal and Spatial Narrative StrategiesERIKA JOHNSON-LEWIS Narrative Philosophy in the Series: Fate, Determinism, and the Manipulation of TimeMICHAEL RENNETT "Enslaved by Time and Space": Determinism, Traumatic Temporality, and Global InterconnectednessARIS MOUSOUTZANIS New Space, New Time, and Newly Told Tales: Lost and The TempestRYAN HOWE PART TWO: LOST PHILOSOPHYLost and Becoming: Reconceptualizing PhilosophyJASON M. PECK Lost in Theory: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lost but Were Afraid to Ask Lacan, Derrida, and FoucaultGIANCARLO LOMBARDI "So This Is All in My Mind?" Hugo Crash-Tests the Contemporary CrusoeMATTHEW PANGBORN Primitivizing the Island: The Eclectic Collection of "Non-Western" ImageryRENEE MCGARRY PART THREE: LOST MEN AND LOST WOMENThe Lost Boys and Masculinity FoundDAVID MAGILL "It Always Ends the Same": Paternal FailuresHOLLY HASSEL AND NANCY L. CHICK Lost Children: Pregnancy, Parenthood, and PotentialDEBORAH DAVIDSON AND WAYNE JEBIAN PART FOUR: LOST IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYLost in Capitalism: or, "Down Here Possession's Nine-Tenths"ELIZABETH LUNDBERG "Strangers in a Strange Land": Evading Environmental Apocalypse Through Human ChoiceCARLOS A. TARIN AND STACEY K. SOWARDS Securitizing the Island: The Other Others' Defense of Environmental ManagementJ. L. SCHATZ We Have to Go Back: Lost After 9/11JESSE KAVADLO About the Contributors Index ...
