Ito, Michiko
In Godzilla’s® Footsteps
1. Introduction
William M. Tsutsui
2. When Godzilla Speaks
Susan Napier
3. Mobilizing
Mark Anderson
4.
Barak Kushner
5. Lost in Translation and Morphed in Transit: Godzilla in Cold War America
Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu
6. Wrestling with Godzilla: Intertextuality, Childish Spectatorship, and the National Body
Aaron Gerow
7. Mothra’s Gigantic Egg: Consuming the South Pacific in 1960s Japan
Yoshikuni Igarashi
8. Hybridity and Negotiated Identity in Japanese Popular Culture
Joyce E. Boss
9. Teaching Godzilla: Classroom Encounters with a Cultural Icon
Joanne Bernardi
10. “Our First Kiss Had a Radioactive Taste”: Ohashi Yasuhiko’s
Kevin J. Wetmore
11. Godzilla Meets Super Kyōgen, or How a Dinosaur Saved the World
Eric C. Rath
12. Monstering the Japanese Cute: Pink Globalization and Its Critics Abroad
Christine R. Yano
13. Kikaida for Life: Cult Fandom in a Japanese Live-Action Tv Show in Hawai’i
Hirofumi Katsuno
14. Apocalypse in Fantasy and Reality: Japanese Pop Culture in Contemporary Russia
Yulia Mikhailova
15. Epilogue: He Did the Stomp, He Did the Monster Stomp
Theodore C. Bestor
Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies, Asian Culture, Film and Television Studies, Cultural Anthropology
- Editor
- Ito, Michiko
- Tsutsui, William M.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2006
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 224 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781403984401
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-4039-6463-2