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  • Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination

    Innocence by Association

    by Jonathan W. Gray ...
    The statement, “The Civil Rights Movement changed America,” though true, has become something of a cliché. Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination seeks to determine how, exactly, the Civil Rights Movement changed the literary possibilities of four iconic American writers: Robert Penn Warren, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, and William Styron. Each of these writers published significant works ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination

    Innocence by Association

    by Jonathan W. Gray ...
    The statement, "The Civil Rights Movement changed America," though true, has become something of a cliché. Civil rights in the White Literary Imagination seeks to determine how, exactly, the Civil Rights Movement changed the literary possibilities of four iconic American writers: Robert Penn Warren, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, and William Styron. Each of these writers published significant works ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Public Data Cultures

    by Jonathan W. Y. Gray ...
    Public data shapes what we know and how we live together. It is often digital, freely available and related to matters of shared concern, from global warming graphs to collaborative spreadsheets documenting mass layoffs.Public Data Cultures explores the practices and cultures of how data is made public in the age of the Internet. Looking beyond familiar narratives of data as a resource to be ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Dead Men's Secrets

    Tantalising Hints of a Lost Super Race

    by Jonathan Gray ...
    Archaeologist Jonathan Gray stumbled upon something that shocked him! … a whole cache of "out of place" items that should not exist. And they weren't just in one place. There was a global pattern to them. This pattern showed a lost science and technology. That's when he knew someone had to speak up. This content was of tremendous value.MACHINERY: Did you know that the Egyptians bored into granite ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Watching with The Simpsons

    Television, Parody, and Intertextuality

    by Jonathan Gray ...
    Series series Comedia
    Using our favourite Springfield family as a case study, Watching with The Simpsons examines the textual and social role of parody in offering critical commentary on other television programs and genres.Jonathan Gray brings together textual theory, discussions of television and the public sphere, and ideas of parody and comedy. Including primary audience research, it focuses on how The Simpsons has ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Television Entertainment

    by Jonathan Gray ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world’s most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little figures in a box, it is deeply embedded in everyday life, in how we think, what we think and care about, and who we think and care about it with.But is television entertainment art? Why do so many love it and so many hate or fear it? Does it ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Show Sold Separately

    Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts

    by Jonathan Gray ...
    Highlights the trailers, merchandising and cultural conversations that shape our experiences of film and televisionIt is virtually impossible to watch a movie or TV show without preconceived notions because of the hype that precedes them, while a host of media extensions guarantees them a life long past their air dates. An onslaught of information from print media, trailers, internet discussion, ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Television Studies

    by Jonathan Gray, Amanda D. Lotz ...
    Series series Short Introductions
    Television Studies provides an overview of the origins, central ideas, and intellectual traditions of this exciting field.What have been the primary areas of inquiry in television studies? Why and how did these areas develop? How have scholars studied them? How are they developing? What have been the discipline’s key works? This book answers these questions by tracing the history of television ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • The Data Journalism Handbook

    How Journalists Can Use Data to Improve the News

    by Jonathan Gray, Lucy Chambers, Liliana Bounegru ...
    When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors since the European ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Television Goes to the Movies

    by Jonathan Gray, Derek Johnson ...
    Television and film have always been connected, but recent years have seen them overlapping, collaborating, and moving towards each other in ever more ways. Set amidst this moment of unprecedented synergy, this book examines how television and film culture interact in the 21st century.Both media appear side by side in many platforms or venues, stories and storytellers cross between them, they ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Fandom, Second Edition

    Identities and Communities in a Mediated World

    by Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, C. Lee Harrington ...
    A completely updated edition of a seminal work on fans and how fandom shapes the culture, social relations, economic models, and politics of our age.We are all fans. Whether we follow our favorite celebrities on Twitter, attend fan conventions such as Comic Con, or simply wait with bated breath for the next episode of our favorite television drama—each of us is a fan.Recognizing that fandom is not ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dislike-Minded

    Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste

    by Jonathan Gray ...
    Series Book 37 - Critical Cultural Communication
    Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they doThe study and discussion of media is replete with talk of fans, loves, stans, likes, and favorites, but what of dislikes, distastes, and alienation?Dislike-Minded draws from over two-hundred qualitative interviews to probe what the media’s failures, wounds, and sore spots tell us about media culture, taste, identity, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD