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Tracking King Kong : a Hollywood icon in world culture / Cynthia Erb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Erb, Cynthia Marie.
- Series:
- Contemporary approaches to film and television series.
- Contemporary approaches to film and television series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- King Kong films--History and criticism.
- King Kong (Fictitious character).
- King Kong (Motion picture : 1933).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Scholars of film and television studies as well as general readers interested in film and popular culture will appreciate this significant volume.
- Contents:
- A showman's dream : the production and release of King Kong
- Camera adventure, dangerous contact : documentaries and genre traditions behind King Kong
- Monstrous returns in the postwar context : Mighty Joe Young and Godzilla
- Gorilla queen and other tales : male spectatorship and the King Kong parodies
- King Kong's melancholy : a reading of Peter Jackson's King Kong.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-299) and index.
- Includes filmography: p. 287-288.
- ISBN:
- 9780814337424
- 0814337422
- OCLC:
- 847609587
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