Unlocking the Meaning of Lost: An Unauthorized Guide Review
I really enjoyed this book and gave it four stars.Unlocking the Meaning of Lost: An Unauthorized Guide Excerpt
In this excerpt, titled Rebirth, the authors explain that characters symbolically die in the crash and then are reborn on the island. They give examples from some of the episodes.An Interview with Lynnette Porter
Lynnette answers my questions on what inspired Unlocking the Meaning of Lost: An Unauthorized Guide, who should read the book, and what Sawyer would say about the book.Unlocking the Meaning of Lost: An Unauthorized Guide Authors
Lynnette Porter has authored or coauthored six books, including Unsung Heroes of The Lord of the Rings: From the Page to the Screen, a literary and film criticism of J. R. R. Tolkien's characters.She has presented more than one hundred fifty conference papers before the Popular Culture Association, Popular Culture Association in the South, Tolkien Society, Society for Technical Communication, and other professional associations in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. She also speaks at fan-related conferences such as the One Ring Celebration and Fellowship Festival. She teaches at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
David Lavery teaches at Middle Tennessee State University. In the Fall of 2006 he will become chair in Film and Television at Brunel University, London.
He is the author of over one hundred published essays and reviews and author/editor/coeditor of eleven books, including Reading Deadwood: A Western to Swear By and Reading The Sopranos: Hit TV from HBO in the Reading Contemporary Television Series. He co-edits the e-journal Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies and is one of the founding editors of the new journal Critical Studies in Television: Scholarly Studies of Small Screen Fictions.
