Allen A. Debus

Kong, Godzilla and the Living Earth

Gaian Environmentalism in Daikaiju Cinema

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

During the 2010s, science fiction's immortal adversaries King Kong and Godzilla, representing our conflicts per Carl Sagan's ""dream dragons"" analogy, made comebacks in American cinema. The blockbuster Kaiju resurged onto the screen, depicting these protectors of an Earth plagued by mankind's hubris and folly. With Earth's future hanging in the balance, their climactic 2021 staging settled a score between the two giant monsters, resolving Toho's classic 1963 film King Kong vs. Godzilla. As formidable creatures emerging from Time's Tomb on Mother Earth, metaphorical Kong and Godzilla are considered here in light of new millennial environmentalism's stark reality. This book, nostalgic in tone, explores the meaning of Kong and Godzilla as planetary saviors--titanic protectors of a theoretical ""living Earth"" Gaia--defending the globe from a prehistoric plague of adversaries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9781476687216
• ISBN-10: 1476687218
• Artikelnr.: 64651732

Autorenporträt

Allen A. Debus, a retired environmental chemist, has long been infatuated with dinosaurs, paleontology, science fiction, Godzilla and King Kong. He has written several books addressing prehistoric creatures--both real and fictional--in popular culture, and attends Chicagoland's Wizard World and G-Fest. He lives in Hanover Park, Illinois.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Foreword by J. D. Lees Preface: A Future of Biblical Proportions Introduction: Two Towering Titans of Terror and Tumult One.
King Kong and Godzilla: Immortal Adversaries-21st-Century Daikaiju Two.
Dinosaur Movies and Cryptozoological, Anachronistic Prehistoric Monsters of Film and Literature (1853 to 1963): The Path to King Kong and/versus Gojira Three.
Merciless Gaia in Geological Time Four.
Kong-frontations: Introducing King Kong Five.
Conjuring Classic Godzilla Six.
Let Them Fight Seven.
Godzilla and Kong: Primal Struggle Eight.
Colossal Conflict Nine.
Rematch Demanded Ten.
Non-Classical Daikaiju: Godzilla in New Millennial Alternate Apocalyptic Media Eleven.
Paleo-Apocalyptical Dino-Monsters: Reflections of Doomsday? Epilogue: C'mon. So What?-You Can Never Go Back. Appendix: An Assortment of Titans, Dino-Daikaiju and Dino-Monsters Chapter Notes Bibliography Index