New Release Books by Jonathan Gray

Enter the Mirrorverse with a full-color hardcover volume that explores a new and divergent universe brought to life in the exciting action role playing game! Sinister forces are rising in the Mirrorverse, requiring champions mighty enough to meet the deadly challenge. The World of Disney Mirrorverse gives an in-depth look at powerfully amplified versions of Sulley, Baymax, Jack Skellington, Maleficent, Belle, Buzz Lightyear, Captain Jack Sparrow, Scar and more—all evolved in visually dynamic and unexpected ways as Guardians against the oncoming Fractured hordes seeking to shatter the Mirrorverse. Examine familiar Disney and Pixar locations now altered by Stellar Magic, and explore the magnificent new worlds within Disney Mirrorverse! Get a detailed view of the dynamically evolved characters, surprising design concepts, rich lore, stunning environments, and more! A must have for all Disney and Pixar fans and gamers!

Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do The 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, representation, meaning, textuality, audiences, and citizenship. The book refuses the simplicity of Pierre Bourdieu’s famous dictum that dislike is (only) snobbery. Instead, Jonathan Gray pushes onward to uncover other explanations for what it ultimately means to dislike specific artifacts of television, film, and other media, and why this dislike matters. As we watch and listen through gritted teeth, Dislike-Minded listens to what is being said, and presents a bold case for a new line of audience research within communication, media, and cultural studies.

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 regularly have common owners, and they discuss each other constantly. Jonathan Gray and Derek Johnson examine what happens at these points of interaction, studying the imaginary borderlands between each medium, the boundary maintenance that quickly envelops much discussion of interaction, and ultimately what we allow or require television and film to be. Offering separate chapters on television exhibition at movie theaters, cinematic representations of television, television-to-film and film-to-television adaptations, and television producers crossing over to film, the book explores how each zone of interaction invokes fervid debate of the roles that producers, audiences, and critics want and need each medium to play. From Game of Thrones to The TV Set, Bewitched to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hundreds of TV shows and films are discussed. Television Goes to the Movies will be of interest to students and scholars of television studies, film studies, media studies, popular culture, adaptation studies, production studies, and media industries.

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 studies right up to the digital present, surveying emerging scholarship, and addressing new questions about the field’s relationship with the digital. The second edition includes an examination of how internet-distributed services such as Netflix have adjusted the stories, industrial practices, and audience experience of television. For all those wondering how to study television, or even why to study television, this new edition of Television Studies will provide a clear and engaging overview of key topics. The book works as a stand-alone introduction and, by placing key works in a broader context, can also provide an excellent basis for an entire course.

Riding on the prairie, Jim Pearl and Billy Steinman desire a change o' vittles from beans, so they rescue a wagon train from massacre. One thing leads to another, and the next thing Billy knows, he's a sheriff, protecting these same settlers from the biggest cattle rancher in the territory. Great American mythology lies in these pages.

All her life Lorry Evans has learned and been taught to hate Christmas and everything it stands for! To make matters worse, she gets caught in an unexpected blizzard on Christmas Eve and crashes her car. Then her life turns incredibly bizarre.

For 800 years, the Ark of the Covenant was the most sacred object in the world. In 586 BC it vanished. 2,500 years later, American amateur archaeologist Ron Wyatt claimed to have found it. Jonathan Gray doubted Wyatt's claims. However, intense investigation and privileged viewing of evidence left him totally convinced.

"The Colossal Coin of Cashdownia!" Scrooge, Donald and Daisy are off to capture the world's hugest, heaviest gold coin... but Flintheart Glomgold wants it first! And when the treasure weighs a ton, lives may hang in the balance...

"A Pocket in Time!" Goofy's daredevil cousin Arizona Goof is back - but can he crack the secret of future-man Eega Beeva's technology? Plus: another outrageous installment of Goofy Online!

Scrooge, Donald, and the nephews are off on more adventures in these tales from around the world. When Brigitta MacBridge and Huey, Dewey, and Louie find a centuries-old insect with a built-in Columbus-era treasure map, how can Scrooge McDuck not try to cash in? Then it’s Scrooge and John D. Rockerduck vs. the Beagle Boys in “The Villainous Vase Case”! Collects issues #26–28.

Leap into action with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse for a wacky collection of modern-day comics classics-featuring the return of the diabolical Phantom Blot! When the supervillain Phantom Blot turns himself two-dimensional, daring Mickey can only stop his crime spree by hopping dimensions! Then, unlucky Donald Duck finally wins the lottery... and will do anything to hang on to his prize! All the stories from IDW's Donald and Mickey #1 and #2 are anthologized in this exciting paperback collection, featuring work by fan-favorite writer-artists William Van Horn and Andrea "Casty" Castellan!

Collects an assortment of classic and modern Disney tales by highly regarded creators from around the world, many of them published for the first time in the U.S. Scrooge McDuck combs the world for wealth in a bonus-packed collectors' anthology of IDW's Uncle Scrooge issues #19-24! From Egyptian wastes in "The Third Nile" to the high Himalayas and ancestral Scotland, the McDuck legend marches on--with Magica De Spell and the Beagle Boys in hot pursuit! This amazing hardback also includes more of William Van Horn's Uncle Rumpus and Romano Scarpa's Brigitta MacBridge... right when Scrooge wants to see them the least!

Everyone's favorite Disney ducks are off on another adventure, this time to search the tombs of Egypt and the icy mountains of Scandinavia! And what for? Treasure, of course! A quest into Egyptology for Scrooge, Donald, and Ludwig Von Drake gets hairier with the Beagle Boys hot on our heroes' trail-and prehistoric caveducks ready to pounce! Then it's off to Finland for a lost McDuck Clan fortune... but the quest won't be easy when villainous Azure Blue and Sharky get involved! Collects issues #23-25.

They say records are made to be broken, but some marks of excellence are simply out of reach. Record Breakers tells the stories behind some of the most extraordinary feats in the sports world. Learn about the amazing athletes involved, how the record was made, and the record's historical context. From big games to glorious seasons, these books will have readers clamoring for more! Book jacket.

“Crisis at Sorcery Summit!” Can true witches win where a mortal sorceress failed? Magica De Spell wants Witch Hazel and Mad Madam Mim to help her steal Scrooge’s Number One Dime—but what’s in it for them?

The future is now! The high-tech city of Avantgarde has a cutting-edge robot police force-but it's just become the Phantom Blot's deadly private army! Can Mickey brave high-tech horrors to stop his old foe? Or will Avantgarde decide Mickey is part of the problem? Omigosh! Collects IDW's Mickey Mouse issues #16-18.

Mickey, Goofy, and Eurasia Toft are out to find Atlantis or die trying... and their path leads to the British seacoast, where–yaarrr!–there be pirates, pitfalls, creepy Count Zoox, and a new threat from the hideous Horde of the Violet Hare! Dive into a new thriller by fan favorite Andrea "Casty" Castellan–then stick around for two wild Pegleg Pete adventures from legendary Disney writer/artist Romano Scarpa! Collects IDW’s Mickey Mouse #13-15.

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 rock with drills that turned 500 times faster than modern power drills?ANCIENT AMERICA: Did you know that a Chinese mapping survey of North America in 2200 BC described a sunrise over the Grand Canyon, black opals and gold nuggets in Nevada, and seals frolicking in San Francisco Bay? This is the most amazing archaeology book you'll ever see! Dead Men's Secrets is an assemblage of astonishing discoveries. A lost super science emerges from the sea floor, jungle, and desert sands of our planet with more than 1,000 forgotten secrets. It will SHOCK you. SEE this world as you've never seen it before. DISCOVER answers you never had. GAIN a new enjoyment. HAVE FACTS at your fingertips to amaze your friends.

How a fifty six year old man makes a twenty three year old woman fall in love with him - or does he? What wily ruses does a groomer use to lure the naïve, unwitting prey? It's the first in two volumes describing in sometimes sublimely sorrowful detail a May-December romance and how it affects everyone's life it touches.