Giant Creatures in Our World : essays on Kaiju and American popular culture /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
2017.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Table of 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)
- Â#x80;#x9C;Was it me? Did I kill them?â#x80;#x9D;: 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 Matsumotoâ#x80;#x99;s Big Man Japan (Kenta McGrath)
- Japanâ#x80;#x99;s Anti-Kaiju Fighting Force: Normalizing Japanâ#x80;#x99;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)â#x80;#x9C;We are eating Gameraâ#x80;#x9D; Mystery Science Theater 3000 Consumes the Kaiju (Karen Joan Kohoutek)
- Collecting Kaiju: How Nostalgia Influences Adult Toy Collecting (Jason Barr)
- About the Contributors
