Unlocking the Meaning of Lost: An Unauthorized Guide

Offers an in-depth look at the secrets behind the island and its castaways, and explores such questions as "Who holds the spiritual key to the island?", "What does it mean to be lost?", and "Does technology save or doom the Lost generation?"

Lynnette R. Porter has authored or coauthored six books, including Unsung Heroes of The Lord of the Rings: From the Page to the Screen, a literary and film criticism of J. R. R. Tolkien's characters. She has presented more than one hundred fifty conference papers before the Popular Culture Association, Popular Culture Association in the South, Tolkien Society, Society for Technical Communication, and other professional associations in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. She also speaks at fan-related conferences such as the One Ring Celebration and Fellowship Festival. She teaches at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

David Lavery teaches at Middle Tennessee State University. In the Fall of 2006 he will become chair in Film and Television at Brunel University, London. He is the author of over one hundred published essays and reviews and author/editor/coeditor of eleven books, including Reading Deadwood: A Western to Swear By and Reading The Sopranos: Hit TV from HBO in the Reading Contemporary Television Series. He co-edits the e-journal Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies and is one of the founding editors of the new journal Critical Studies in Television: Scholarly Studies of Small Screen Fictions.