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Reading Lost is a collection of essays by top television scholars, covering issues of industrial strategies, cultural representations and aesthetics.
Description[]
"This book is a comprehensive guide to the one of the most successful TV dramas in global television history. Created by wunderkind J.J. Abrams, the award-winning series Lost began in 2004 and will end after its sixth season in 2010. Reading Lost delves into the aspects that attract 15 million viewers a week: cinematic visuals, complex narrative, and a diverse, international cast. Also addressed are the show's multitude of mystifying elements and plot twists including the polar bear, the four-toed statue, and the "Others." The book also includes an up-to-date episode guide."
About Author[]
"Roberta Pearson is Professor of Film and Television Studies and Director of the Institute of Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham. She has authored, co-authored and co-edited numerous books and articles, including American Cultural Studies,A Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory and Cult Television. She is currently editing the forthcoming Companion to Television Genres."
Content[]
- "Introduction: Why Lost? -- Roberta Pearson
- How Lost Found its Audience: The Making of a Cult Blockbuster -- Stacey Abbott
- The Fictional Institutions of Lost: World Building, Reality, and the Economic Possibilities of Narrative Divergence -- Derek Johnson
- Television Out of Time: Watching Cult Shows On Download -- Will Brooker
- The Gathering Place: Lost in Oahu -- Julian Stringer
- Lost logos: Channel 4 and the Branding of American Event Television -- Paul Grainge
- Lost in a Great Story: Evaluation in Narrative Television (and Television Studies) -- Jason Mittell
- Chain of Events: Regimes of Evaluation and Lost's Construction of the Televisual Character -- Roberta Pearson
- `Do you even know where this is going?': Lost's Viewers and Narrative Premeditation -- Ivan Askwith
- Lost in Genre: Chasing the White Rabbit to Find a White Polar Bear -- Angela Ndalianis
- Lost in the Orient: Transnationalism Interrupted -- Michael Newbury
- We're Not in Portland Anymore: Lost and Its International Others -- Jonathan Gray
- `A fabricated Africanist persona': Race, Representation, and Narrative Experimentation in Lost -- Celeste-Marie Bernier
- Queer(ying) Lost -- Glyn Davis and Gary Needham"
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