In Godzilla’s® Footsteps

1. Introduction
William M. Tsutsui

2. When Godzilla Speaks
Susan Napier

3. Mobilizing Gojira: Mourning Modernity as Monstrosity
Mark Anderson

4. Gojira as Japan’s First Postwar Media Event
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 Gojira in Japan and Canada
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