Roberta Pearson
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Lisa's reading of the Sharon
Lisa's reading of the Sharon character within the intertextual frame of dominant stereotypes of Asian women is useful and compelling. I must say that until now this was not a foregrounded element of my own reading of the character. I had thought of h ... -
Going back to the value
Going back to the value added question, interesting that Will cites Lostpedia as a source. We tell our students not to cite Wikipedia or similar sources and yet we ourselves have recourse to them when we need quick facts. I'm currently using TV Witho ... -
As with my response to the
As with my response to the post on Sharon's Asianess, I'd want to provide a couple of other intepretatory frameworks here. When I hear captivity narrative, I think not of African-Americans and the Civil War (and perhaps Ellen can clarify this) b ... -
Re: Lost as TV3
I forgot to mention in my
I forgot to mention in my initial post that contributors to the current Lost week on In Media Res are also all contributors to my forthcoming edited book, Reading Lost (IB Tauris) which will be available in the autumn (I hope). I'm given a chance at ... -
Chris is right to point the
Chris is right to point the contradictory elements of BSG-- babes and battles aimed at the fan boy demographic coupled with a dignified older woman aimed at my demographic. Popular culture is popular precisely because of its polysemy; a collection of disp ... -
That's a really fascinating
That's a really fascinating question, Michael, and one which was easier to answer in the era of network hegemony. Back when original Star Trek aired on NBC, it was easy to for fans to love Gene Roddenberry and hate NBC (although, as producer Herb Sol ... -
The most fascinating thing
The most fascinating thing about television writing is the relatively large size of the writing staffs. The showrunner has overall control, yet writes relatively few scripts himself (unless he's a coked-up Sorkin type!) But the other writers nonethel ... -
I forgot to mention in my
I forgot to mention in my initial post that contributors to the current Lost week on In Media Res are also all contributors to my forthcoming edited book, Reading Lost (IB Tauris) which will be available in the autumn (I hope). I'm given a chance at ... -
Will raises an interesting
Will raises an interesting issue about what we might consider to be the central Lost text, the episodes themselves, becoming peripheral in our discussion. One reason for that is that any hit show will generate lots of ancillary texts. another is that we f ... -
Not that I wish to disagree
Not that I wish to disagree with a contributor to my Lost book (Reading Lost, IB Tauris, available in autumn, trying viral marketing again) but hasn't it traditionally been the cult shows that have attracted shipper fanfic and now fanvids? How many m ...