Jason Barr: 4 books
The Kaiju Film
A Critical Study of Cinema's Biggest Monsters
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
The Kaiju (strange monster or strange beast) film genre has a number of themes that go well beyond the “big monsters stomping on cities” motif. Since the seminal King Kong 1933) and the archetypal Godzilla (1954), kaiju has mined the subject matter of science run amok, militarism, capitalism,...
Video Gaming in Science Fiction
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
As video gaming and gaming culture became more mainstream in the 1970s, science fiction authors began to incorporate aspects of each into their work. This study examines how media-fueled paranoia about video gaming—first emerging almost fifty years ago—still resonates in modern science fiction....
The Good Life of Leo
A Field Guide to Living Simply Successful
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
In the beginning of 2016, I found myself lost in a world that had been turned upside down. My marriage, my finances, and my life in general was falling apart. Knowing there had to be so much more to life than existing day in and day out, my wife and I went on a journey. It was on this journey...
Building the Skyline
The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the city's architecture and its general history, but little work has explored the economic forces that created the skyline. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles...