Where we are and where we are going? A Post-Modern look on Lost

Authors

  • Lucas Gomes-Thimóteo Author Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste (Unicentro)
  • Nincia Cecília Ribas Borges-Teixeira Author Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste (Unicentro)

Keywords:

Postmodernism, Transmedia, Lost, Convergence Culture, Cultural Homogenization

Abstract

This article analyzes the television series Lost from two perspectives. Thefirst characterizes its structure as a transmedia narrative, a format resultingfrom convergence culture, emerging in our time with the mass content andmedia that surrounds us. This means that the various existing texts neededfor the performance of the viewer, to work and thus create new meanings.In addition, some elements in the series are correlated to issues raised bypostmodernity; in that way, proposing to demonstrate how the narrativepresented reproduces situations of reality in their fiction, which provides aPost-Modernist subject identification with the series.

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Published

2012-08-23

How to Cite

Gomes-Thimóteo, L., & Ribas Borges-Teixeira, N. C. (2012). Where we are and where we are going? A Post-Modern look on Lost. Palabra Clave, 15(3), 649–667. Retrieved from https://palabraclave.unisabana.edu.co/index.php/palabraclave/article/view/2381

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 3 (2012): Cultura (audio)visual

Section

Poetics

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