Barr Jason Barr – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren Barr Jason Barr. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
5 produkter
Kaiju Film
A Critical Study of Cinema''s Biggest Monsters
E-bok, 2016
200 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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, …
Giant Creatures in Our World
Essays on Kaiju and American Popular Culture
Av Barr Jason Barr, Mustachio Camille D.G. Mustachio
E-bok, 2017
200 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Dismissed as camp by critics but revered by fans, the kaiju or "strange creature" film has become an iconic element of both Japanese and American pop culture. From homage to parody to advertising, references to Godzilla--and to a lesser extent Gamera, Rodan, Ultraman and others--abound in …
Video Gaming in Science Fiction
A Critical Study
Av Barr Jason Barr, Kapell Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
E-bok, 2018
417 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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. …
Gender and Werewolf Cinema
E-bok, 2020
303 kr
Lägg i varukorg
It all begins with a howl, the unsettling sound which tells audiences that someone will soon become a werewolf. But the changes that occur during that transformation aren''t just physical; they are psychological as well. Unremarkable men become domineering leaders. Innocuous men become violent and …
Kaiju Connection
Giant Monsters and Ourselves
E-bok, 2023
394 kr
Lägg i varukorg
What makes a kaiju a kaiju? What makes an ape a large ape, and why do we sympathize with some, such as King Kong, and not with others, such as Konga? And what makes a giant person become a "monster"? This book provides a new perspective on kaiju and reveals that our boundaries for the genre are …
