ISBN:
9781403984401
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (221 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Print version In Godzilla's Footsteps : Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage
DDC:
306.0952/09045
Keywords:
Popular culture
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Godzilla films History and criticism
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Godzilla films ; History and criticism
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Japan ; Civilization ; 1945-
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Popular culture ; Japan
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Electronic books
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Japan Civilization 1945-
Abstract:
These essays consider the Godzilla films and how they shaped and influenced postwar Japanese culture, as well as the globalization of Japanese pop culture icons. There are contributions from Film Studies, Anthropology, History, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies and from Susan Napier, Anne Allison, Christine Yano and others.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 When Godzilla Speaks -- 2 Mobilizing Gojira: Mourning Modernity as Monstrosity -- 3 Gojira as Japan's First Postwar Media Event -- 4 Lost in Translation and Morphed in Transit: Godzilla in Cold War America -- 5 Wrestling with Godzilla: Intertextuality, Childish Spectatorship, and the National Body -- 6 Mothra's Gigantic Egg: Consuming the South Pacific in 1960s Japan -- 7 Hybridity and Negotiated Identity in Japanese Popular Culture -- 8 Teaching Godzilla: Classroom Encounters with a Cultural Icon -- 9 "Our First Kiss Had a Radioactive Taste": Ohashi Yasuhiko's Gojira in Japan and Canada -- 10 Godzilla Meets Super Kyōgen, or How a Dinosaur Saved the World -- 11 Monstering the Japanese Cute: Pink Globalization and Its Critics Abroad -- 12 Kikaida for Life: Cult Fandom in a Japanese Live-Action TV Show in Hawai'i -- 13 Apocalypse in Fantasy and Reality: Japanese Pop Culture in Contemporary Russia -- Epilogue: He Did the Stomp, He Did the Monster Stomp -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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