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  “You Got No Idea What’s Goin’ On On That Island!”: What SNL Can Teach Us About Lost

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  Ivan Askwith Big Spaceship

  February 13, 2008

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  stereotyped representation of gendered concerns and interests: at least in this elevator, men care about plot, ...
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  Lost is a Four Letter Word

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  Julian Stringer University of Nottingham

  February 14, 2008

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  literary works “each space determines, or at least encourages, its own kind of story…What happens depends ...
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  The Essential Recap: Memory, Amnesia, and Anticipation in Serial Television

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  Derek Johnson University of Wisconsin, Madison

  September 20, 2007

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  The Essential Recap: Memory, Amnesia, and Anticipation in Serial Television Lost narrative Battlestar Galactica memory paratext recap seriality redundancy Alan McKee Curator's Note After purchasing a television season on DVD years ago, I was immediat ...
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  Man Out of Time: Lost Season 3 Finale

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  Will Brooker Kingston University

  February 12, 2008

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  Man Out of Time: Lost Season 3 Finale transmedia temporality puzzles narrative Lostpedia Lost games fandom collective intelligence brand communities ARG ABC Curator's Note It opens, of course, in medias res. We are thrown into the scene – thrown forw ...
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  The Conundrum of the Character-Driven Plot in Lost

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  Stacey Abbott Roehampton University

  February 13, 2008

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  The Conundrum of the Character-Driven Plot in Lost Lost narrative cult fan videos character-driven plots Curator's Note Lost is a conundrum. Its phenomenal success positions it squarely within mainstream television while its enigmatic and seemingly s ...