Queer(ying) Lost

Glyn Davis; Gary Needham

Queer(ying) Lost

Glyn Davis, Gary Needham

Edinburgh College of Art

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Abstract

This essay on the television series Lost explores and interrogates the programme's lack of queer characters. The conservative and ideological strictures faced by commercial, serial television fiction in the United States - and which arguably characterise television as a medium - are outlined. Attempts to detect queer characters and moments are made, drawing on extratextual data and gossip. It is argued that the uses of sound and narrative structure in Lost provide the series with a queer potency and affective charge.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Reading Lost
Subtitle of host publication	Perspectives on a Hit Television Show
Editors	Roberta Pearson
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	I.B. Tauris Publishers
Pages	277-296
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Print)	9781845119365
Publication status	Published - 2008

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

Lost
queer theory
narrative theory

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