Author: Jonathan Gray
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: society, communication, entertainment, television
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-04-03
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0415772249
ISBN-13: 9780415772242

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 offer a window to the world, or images of a fake world? How is it political and how does it address us as citizens? What powers does it hold, and what powers do we have over it? Or, for that matter,

Author: Jonathan Gray
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: media, paratexts, spoilers, promos, separately, show
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0814731953
ISBN-13: 9780814731956

It 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, merchandising, podcasts, and guerilla marketing, we generally know something about upcoming movies and TV shows well before they are even released or aired. The extras, or “paratexts,” that surround viewing experiences are far from peripheral, shaping our understanding of them and informing our decisions about

Author: Jonathan Gray
Publisher: TEACH Services Inc.
Keywords: ahead, secrets
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2006-01-30
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1572584181
ISBN-13: 9781572584181

64 ways in which an earlier forgotten science and technology was superior to our own. These are not merely ancient secrets - but knowledge way ahead of our own 21st century. Sixty-four ways in which an earlier, forgotten science and technology was superior to our own...today. You will learn of secret formulas that could revolutionize modern aviation, construction and medicine - advanced secrets our world once knew, and has forgotten. Discover how some geniuses of antiquity soared into inventions and plucked knowlege that our 21st century is just beginning to nudge. You may well ask, what e

Author: Jonathan Gray
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: intertextuality, parody, television, simpsons, watching
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2005-12-16
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0415362024
ISBN-13: 9780415362023

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 been able to talk back to three of television’s key genres - the sitcom, adverts and the news - and on how it holds the potential to short-circuit these genre’s meanings, power, and effects by

Author: Jonathan Gray
Publisher: TEACH Services, Inc.
Keywords: giants, world, lost
Number of Pages: 50
Published: 2006-07-28
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1572584580
ISBN-13: 9781572584587

Authors:Robin Andersen, Jonathan Gray,
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: volume, media, battleground
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0313341680
ISBN-13: 9780313341687

Authors:Robin Andersen, Jonathan Gray,
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: volume, media, battleground
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0313341699
ISBN-13: 9780313341694