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Giant creatures in our world : essays on Kaiju and American popular culture / edited by Camille D. G. Mustachio, Jason Barr.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--United States--History.
- Popular culture.
- Monster films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2017.
- Summary:
- "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 others abound in entertainment media. In this collection of new essays, contributors examine kaiju representations in a range of contexts and attempt to define this at times ambiguous genre"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Kamen Rider vs. Spider-man and Batman: American superheroes as kaiju villains / Se Young King
- Notes from the land of light: observations on religious elements seen in Ultraman / Justin Mullis
- Monsters of the rift: kaiju as ciphers of unbalance / Jase Short
- Archetypes at war: kaiju as cult icons in Pacific Rim / Nicholas Bollinger
- "Was it me? did I kill them?": the monsters and the women in King Kong (1933), Gojira (1954), Monster Zero (1965), Destroy all Monsters (1968) and Gamera III: Revenge of Iris (1999) / Sigmund C. Shen
- Soft power: narrative of neutrality in King Kong escapes and Frankenstein conquers the world / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar
- The confused nation: Hitoshi Matsumoto's big man Japan / Kenta McGrath
- Japan's anti-kaiju fighting force: normalizing Japan's self-defense forces through postwar monster films / Jeffrey J. Hall
- The ideology of disaster: Godzilla, gorillas and geopolitics in the global 21st century / Jamie Macdonald
- "We are eating Gamera": Mystery Science Theater 3000 consumes the kaiju / Karen Joan Kohoutek
- Collecting kaiju: how nostalgia influences adult toy collecting / Jason Barr.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed December 2, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-2997-8
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