Wk.

Date

Subject

Reading

Screening

Course Requirements

1

1/15

Intro to the Course

Pearson, "Why Lost" (RL) [to be read when the book comes in] 

"Lost in 8:15"; "The Pilot"

2

1/22

Lost Characters: Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, Jin, Claire, Eko, Julet, Daniel, Miles, Shannon

UL Appendices A, B, C; Pearson, "Chain of Events" (RL); Newbury, "Lost in the Orient" (RL) [to be read when the book comes in] 

"Walkabout"

3

1/29

Lost Locke, Hurley, Charlie, Sun, Juliet, Ana-Lucia, Ben, Michael, Charlotte, Boone

UL Appendices A, B, C; Davis and Needham, "Queer(ying) Lost" (RL); Gray, "We're Not in Portland Anymore" (RL) [to be read when the book comes in]

"Exodus," I, II

4

2/5

Lost and the Desperate Networks

Selection from Carter, Desperate Networks (CD); UL Part 1; Abbott, "How Lost Found Its Audience" (RL); Grainge, "Lost Logos" (RL); Stringer, "The Gathering Place" (RL) [to be read when the book comes in]' Craig, "The Man Who Discovered Lost"

"Man of Science, Man of Faith"

5

2/12

Lost and Television Authorship

UL Part 1; LBT Ch. 7

"The Other 48 Days"

6

2/19

Lost's Genre | Lost as Cult Television

UL Part 4; Ndalianis, "Lost Genre" (RL); Brooker, "Television Out of Time" (RL)

"Live Together, Die Alone," I, II

Report on Lord of the Flies (Leavens)

7

2/26

The Lost Fandom

Mittell, "Lost in an Alternative Reality" (CD); Johnson, "The Fictional Institutions of Lost" (RL)

"A Tale of Two Cities"

Report on Alice in Wonderland (Williams)

8

3/5

Lost and Narrative

Mittell, "Narrative Complexity"; Sconce, "What If"; Lavery, "Lost and LTTVN" (CD); Mittell, "Lost in a Good Story" (RL); Bernier, "A Fabricated Africanist Persona" (RL)

"Flashes Before Your Eyes"

Spring Break

9

3/19

Lost Enigmas

Lavery, "The Island's Greatest Mystery"; Millman, "Game Theory" (CD); Askwith, "Do You Even Know" (RL)

"The Man from Tallahassee"

Report on The Invention of Morel (Stevenson) | Critical Essay Due

10

3/26

Lost Ancestor Texts

LBT "Ancestor Texts"; Lavery, "Is There a Text on This Island?" (CD)

"The Man Behind the Curtain"

Report on The Drawing of the Three (Chapman)

11

4/2

Lost Books on the Island

LBT "Books on the Island"

"Through the Looking Glass," I & II

12

4/9

Lost Media Ancestors

LBT "Must See TV & Essential Movies"

Lost and Time Travel Website

"The Constant"

Report on A Wrinkle in Time (Bryant)

13

4/16

Lost and Religion/Philosophy

UL Parts 2 & 3; LBT Ch. 4

"The Shape of Things to Come"

Report on The Stand (Cain)

14

4/23

Lost and the Future of Television

Pearson, "Lost in Transition" (CD)

"There's no Place Like Home," I & II

Report on Catch-22 | Major Paper Due

15

5/1

The Lost Finale