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  It Rhymes with Smashsmortion

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  Craig O. Stewart Old Dominion University

  June 08, 2007

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  It Rhymes with Smashsmortion Lost Knocked Up Judd Apatow abortion family values Maude Waitress Curator's Note Like millions of other Americans, last weekend I went to see Knocked Up, the new movie from Judd Apatow. As you no doubt already know, the f ...
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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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  Lost as TV3

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  Roberta Pearson University of Nottingham (UK)

  February 11, 2008

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  Lost as TV3 ABC audience fragmentation brand communities convergence fan fiction Lost mobisodes narrative complexity overflow political economy scheduling transmedia Verizon WGA strike Curator's Note Unpacking this thirty second commercial provides n ...
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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 ...
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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

  5 comments

  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

  3 comments

  literary works “each space determines, or at least encourages, its own kind of story…What happens depends ...
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  Stranger in a strange land: Quality television's episodic failures

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  April 21, 2011

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  Stranger in a strange land: Quality television's episodic failures TV Failure The Sopranos quality TV Lost Coupling Battlestar Galactica ABC Curator's Note The phrase "television failure" recalls high-profile series that couldn’t live ...
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  Contemporary American Prime-Time Television Serials and the Logics of Conspiracy

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  Felix Brinker Graduate School of North American Studies, Free University of Berlin

  April 08, 2013

  10 comments

  Contemporary American Prime-Time Television Serials and the Logics of Conspiracy The X-Files Lost Fringe Conspiracy Theories American Serial Television Curator's Note Ever since the phenomenal success of The X-Files (1993-2002), drama serials about t ...