Jason A Barr

Nightmarriage

Chad Thomas Johnston’s Nightmarriage is a whimsical memoir that explores the terrors of marriage and the perils of parenthood. Adapted from Johnston’s blog series of the same name, Nightmarriage proves that, when two people marry, their flaws tie the knot, too. In essays such as “My Wife, the Black ...

The Language of Doctor Who: From Shakespeare to Alien Tongues (Science Fiction Television)

In a richly developed fictional universe, Doctor Who, a wandering survivor of a once-powerful alien civilization, possesses powers beyond human comprehension. He can bend the fabric of time and space with his TARDIS, alter the destiny of worlds, and drive entire species into extinction. The good doc...

The Kaiju Film: A Critical Study of Cinema's Biggest Monsters

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, coloni...

Building the Skyline: The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers

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 t...

[(The Language of Doctor Who: From Shakespeare to Alien Tongues)] [Author: Jason Barr] published on (July, 2014)

The Kaiju Film: A Critical Study of Cinema's Biggest Monsters by Jason Barr (2016-01-28)

The Gospel Remix: Reaching the Hip Hop Generation