Cynthia Burkhead

Paul Wright

Pearson Moore

Jamie Smith

Nikki Stafford

Amy Bauer

Antonio Savorelli

C. David Milles

Erika Olson

Jo Garfein

Jeffrey Frame

Jennifer Galicinski

Delano Freeberg

Michelle Lang

Kevin McGinnis

Sam McPherson

Erin Carlyle

Sarah Clarke-Stuart

Ryan Ozawa

Andy Page

What if all your favorite LOST authors and bloggers were gathered in one place, accessible anytime you wished, day or night? What would you talk about with them? What fascinating ideas would they bring for your consideration? What if you could talk with people who never left the Island, who never will leave the Island-whose job it is, in fact, to live, breathe, touch, and see LOST 24 hours a day, seven days a week? There are such people, and there is such a magical place, in a book: LOST Thought. This anthology presents the greatest collection of LOST expertise ever gathered in one book: Bloggers and Authors:Nikki Stafford (Finding Lost)Jo Garfein (Jopinionated)Pearson Moore (LOST Humanity)Sarah Clarke Stuart (Literary Lost)Sam McPherson (Lostpedia.com)Erika Olson (Long Live Locke)Ryan Ozawa (The Transmission)Andy Page (Dark UFO) Nationally Recognized Literary Scholars:Amy Bauer, Ph.D. (Professor of Music)Cynthia Burkhead, Ph.D. (Professor of English)Jeffrey Frame, Ph.D. (Professor of Theater and Film)Delano Freeberg, Ph.D. (Analytical Scientist)Julia Guernsey-Pitchford, Ph.D. (Professor of English)Michelle Lang, Ph.D. (Professor of Art)Antonio Savorelli, Ph.D. (Film and Literary Studies)Paul Wright, Ph.D. (Professor of English)Jamie R. Smith (Professor of English) LOST Scholars:Jennifer Galicinski (Theology)C. David Milles (Literary and Film Studies)Erin Carlyle (Women's Studies)Gozde Kilic (Cultural Studies)Kevin McGinnis (Religious Studies) The Island is the destiny of everyone onboard Flight 815. That is to say, the Island is our destiny. This is where we stand, where destiny bids us abide. We stand in the shadow of greatness. No one can ever own the Island. It is the Island that calls us, directs us, owns us. The Island compels us to reject the spiritual death of complacency, conformity, and mediocrity. There is nothing compromising or halfway in the Island's call to exploit every faculty of the mind so that we might ponder, create, and dream. Here then, in these pages, meditations and missives-dispatches and messages-from the object of our fascination: the Island.

Leading Thinkers Discuss LOST

LOST Thought

David Lavery

No recent television creator has generated more critical, scholarly, and popular discussion or acquired as devoted a cult following as Joss Whedon (b. 1964). No fewer than thirty books concerned with his work have now been published, and ten international conferences on his work have convened in the U.K., the United States, Australia, and Turkey. Fitting then that this first volume in University Press of Mississippi's Television Conversations Series is devoted to the writer, director, and showrunner who has delivered Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The WB, 1997–2001; UPN, 2001–3), Angel (The WB, 1999–2004), Firefly (2002), Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Webcast, 2008), and Dollhouse (FOX, 2009-10). If Whedon has shown himself to be a virtuoso screenwriter/script-doctor, director, comic book author, and librettist, he is as well a masterful conversationalist. As a DVD commentator, for example, the consistently hilarious, reliably insightful, frequently moving Whedon has few rivals. In his many interviews he likewise shines. Whether answering a hundred rapid-fire, mostly silly questions from fans on the Internet, fielding serious inquiries about his craft and career from television colleagues, or assessing his disappointments, Whedon seldom fails to provoke laughter and reflection.

Conversations

Joss Whedon

Hillary Robson

Grace under Pressure: Greys Anatomy Uncovered is a collection of essays that offers a scholarly, critical analysis of the hit ABC network series. Within these pages, the authors examine various topics in depth, including the making of the series; its marketing and promotion; the creative team behind the show; the role of music within the series; gender and gender roles; family and relationships; and morality.

Grey's Anatomy Uncovered

Grace Under Pressure

No recent television creator has generated more critical, scholarly, and popular discussion or acquired as devoted a cult following as Joss Whedon (b. 1964). No fewer than thirty books concerned with his work have now been published (a forthcoming volume even offers a book-length bibliography), and ten international conferences on his work have convened in the U.K., the United States, Australia, and Turkey. Fitting then that this first volume in the University Press of Mississippi’s "Television Conversations" series is devoted to the writer, director, and showrunner who has delivered Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The WB, 1997–2001; UPN, 2001–3), Angel (The WB, 1999–2004), Firefly (2002), Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Webcast, 2008), and Dollhouse (FOX, 2009–10). If Whedon has shown himself to be a virtuoso screenwriter/script-doctor, director, comic book author, and librettist, he is as well a masterful conversationalist. As a DVD commentator, for example, the consistently hilarious, reliably insightful, frequently moving Whedon has few rivals. In his many interviews he likewise shines. Whether answering a hundred rapid-fire, mostly silly questions from fans on the Internet, fielding serious inquiries about his craft and career from television colleagues, or assessing his disappointments, Whedon seldom fails to provoke laughter and reflection.

Grace under Pressure: Grey’s Anatomy Uncovered is a collection of essays that offers a scholarly, critical analysis of the hit ABC network series. Within these pages, the authors examine various topics in depth, including the making of the series; its marketing and promotion; the creative team behind the show; the role of music within the series; gender and gender roles; family and relationships; and morality.

Grace under Pressure

Introduces the life and work of John Steinbeck, explores his contributions to American literature, and analyzes his works.

Student Companion to John Steinbeck

Cynthia Burkhead

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