Lost - 9781800859234

LostAuthor(s): Brigid Cherry\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781800859234, 978-1800859234\nSynopsis\nFrom its opening moments featuring the aftermath of a plane crash on a tropical island, the television series Lost [tel] became one of the most intriguing and talked about programmes in the era of digital media. This contribution to the Constellations series is the first full-length account of Lost and explores in detail what made this series both a popular hit with critics and the public (as quality or must-see TV), and also a series accruing intense fan scrutiny (as cult telefantasy). Lost is discussed in terms of its generic hybridity, and in particular how it incorporates and reframes familiar tropes of science fiction in the context of a Survivor reality TV-style plot on the one hand and as a mystery box of extremely complex hermeneutic codes and hyperdiegesis on the other. Further, it expl.