The Kaiju Film(English, Paperback, Barr Jason)

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The Kaiju Film(English, Paperback, Barr Jason) is written by Barr Jason and published by McFarland & Co Inc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 078649963X (ISBN 10) and 9780786499632 (ISBN 13).

The Kaiju (strange monster or strange beast) film genre has a number of themes that go well beyond the "big monsters stomping on cities" motif. Since the seminal King Kong 1933) and the archetypal Godzilla (1954), kaiju has mined the subject matter of science run amok, militarism, capitalism, colonialism, consumerism and pollution. This critical examination of kaiju considers the entirety of the genre--the major franchises, along with less well known films like Kronos (1957), Monsters (2010) and Pacific Rim (2013). The author examines how kaiju has crossed cultures from its original folkloric inspirations in both the U.S. and Japan and how the genre continues to reflect national values to audiences.