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Giant creatures in our world : essays on Kaiju and American popular culture
- Title
- Giant creatures in our world : essays on Kaiju and American popular culture / edited by Camille D.G. Mustachio and Jason Barr.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- vi, 206 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Kamen Rider vs. Spider-Man and Batman: American Superheroes as Kaiju Villains / Se Young Kim -- 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 Gemera 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 Costumes the Kaiju / Karen Joan Kohoutek -- Collecting Kaiju: How Nostalgia Influences Adult Toy Collecting / Jason Barr.
- Call Number
- MFL 17-3976
- ISBN
- 1476668361
- 9781476668369
- OCLC
- 1009085010
- Title
- Giant creatures in our world : essays on Kaiju and American popular culture / edited by Camille D.G. Mustachio and Jason Barr.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Mustachio, Camille D. G., 1975-Barr, Jason, 1976-
- Research Call Number
- MFL 17-3976