Sean Rhoads, Brooke McCorkle

Japan's Green Monsters

Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 1954, a massive irradiated dinosaur emerged from Tokyo Bay and rained death and destruction on the Japanese capital. Since then Godzilla and other monsters, such as Mothra and Gamera, have gained cult status around the world. This book provides a new interpretation of these monsters, or kaiju-u, and their respective movies. Analyzing Japanese history, society and film, the authors show the ways in which this monster cinema take on environmental and ecological issues--from nuclear power and industrial pollution to biodiversity and climate change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781476663906
• ISBN-10: 1476663904
• Artikelnr.: 48700693

Autorenporträt

Sean Rhoads is a film historian, Japanologist, and lifelong monster cinema aficionado. He has taught courses on East Asia and published on Godzilla and environmentalism in G-Fan magazine, and lectured on Japanese monster cinema at G-FEST. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface
1.
Japanese Giant Monster Movies
2.
Nuclear Terror and Radioactive Landscapes
3.
Godzilla, Nature and Nuclear Revenge
4.
Mothra, Marx, Mother Nature
5.
The Decline of Cinema and Rise of Monsters
6.
Daikaij
Gamera: Consuming Natural Resources
7.
1970s Japan: "A polluter's paradise"
8.
Smog, Sludge and Hippies: Godzilla vs. Hedorah
9.
Gamera vs. Zigra: A Tale of Space Invaders and the Sea 10.
The Bubble and the Beasts: Kaij
eiga of the 1980s 11.
Rebirth of Mothra: Daikaij
and the Environment in the Post-Bubble Era 12.
Prevailing Concerns in the New Millennium Chapter Notes Bibliography Index