Living Lost: Why We're All Stuck on the Island

Miracles, viruses, plane crashes and acts of terror perpetrated by a group of Others: This is the perplexing and radical world of the television show Lost. With wit and insight, J. Wood explores the show's strange engagement with the psychodynamics of the war on terror/ism we all experience through the media and mediated government -- war, (mis)information, terrorism -- and re-works those psychodynamics through its narrative. And that argument underlies a broader discussion of the mysteries and secrets and strange narrative forms the show has taken on. There's also an appendix that goes over the major characters up through the six-episode miniseries and discusses how the themes of the narrative are refracted through the characterizations.