Reading Lost

Roberta Pearson is a Professor of Film and Television Studies and Director of the Institute of Film and Television Studies, University of Nottingham. She has authored, co-authored and co-edited numerous books and articles including the co-edited 'Cult Television' (2004) and several essays on 'Star Trek'. She is currently editing Blackwells 'Companion to Television Genres'.

• Table of Contents Roberta PearsonIntroduction: Why Lost?Production/audiencesStacey AbbottHow Lost Found its Audience: The Making of a Cult BlockbusterDerek JohnsonThe Fictional Institutions of Lost: World Building, Reality, and the Economic Possibilities of Narrative DivergenceWill BrookerTelevision Out of Time: Watching Cult Shows On DownloadJulian StringerThe Gathering Place: Lost in OahuPaul GraingeLost logos: Channel 4 and the Branding of American Event TelevisionTextJason MittellLost in a Great Story: Evaluation in Narrative Television (and Television Studies)Roberta PearsonChain of Events: Regimes of Evaluation and Lost’s Construction of the Televisual CharacterIvan Askwith‘Do you even know where this is going?’: Lost’s Viewers and Narrative Premeditation Angela Ndalianis Lost in Genre: Chasing the White Rabbit to Find a White Polar BearRepresentationMichael NewburyLost in the Orient: Transnationalism InterruptedJonathan GrayWe’re Not in Portland Anymore: Lost and Its International OthersCeleste-Marie Bernier‘A fabricated Africanist persona’: Race, Representation, and Narrative Experimentation in LostGlyn Davis and Gary NeedhamQueer(ying) LostContributorsIndex