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Download or read book Godzilla Returns written by Marc Cerasini and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Godzilla, the king of the monsters, has returned to wreak havoc on the people of Japan.
Book Synopsis A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series, 2d ed. by : David Kalat
Download or read book A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series, 2d ed. written by David Kalat and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly updated and revised critical account of the Godzilla movie franchise explores the fascinating story behind Japan's most famous movie monster and its development from black-and-white arthouse allegory to international commercial juggernaut. Reviled by critics but boasting a dedicated cult following, the films of the Godzilla franchise provide a unique window into the national identities of both Japan and the United States. This work focuses on how differences in American and Japanese culture, as well as differences in their respective film industries, underlie the discrepancies between the American and Japanese versions of the films. It features detailed filmographic data for both the American and Japanese versions of each film, including plot synopses, cast, credits, and detailed production notes.
Download or read book Kaiju Unleashed written by Shawn Pryor and published by Epic Ink Books. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaiju Unleashed offers a general introduction to the exciting film genre, serves as a guidebook to its film highlights, and celebrates its practitioners, trends, and stories.
Book Synopsis Japan's Favorite Mon-star by : Steve Ryfle
Download or read book Japan's Favorite Mon-star written by Steve Ryfle and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bigger, badder, and more durable than Hollywood's greatest action heroes, Godzilla emerged from the mushroom cloud of an H-bomb test in 1954 to trample Tokyo. More than 40 years later, he reigns as the undisputed monarch of movie monsters, with legions of fans spanning several generations and countless international boundaries.
Download or read book Godzilla FAQ written by Brian Solomon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He is the Lizard King – well, the King of the Monsters – he can do anything. Since he first romped onto the silver screen in 1954, no other character in all of international cinema has been as beloved by American audiences as Godzilla. Despite the modern film industry's affinity for franchises and cinematic universes, he remains one of its most enduring and popular characters, with a total of twenty-eight motion pictures (not even including two American reboots!) under his massive belt. From his home base in Japan, where the legendary Toho Pictures first put him on the map, Godzilla has gone on to become an international phenomenon, a pop culture avatar, a movie monster unrivaled in both size and appeal. The latest installment in Applause Theatre and Cinema Books' FAQ series, Brian Soloman's Godzilla FAQ is a broad and varied exploration of the monumental, fire-breathing radioactive lizard that has roared his way into our hearts over a sixty-year reign of terror. By pairing a colloquial text with a wide array of illustrations and visual media, this 400-page survey encourages readers to drop in and out of the book, as every chapter serves as a self-supporting article on a given subject. Written by a lifelong Godzilla fan and pop culture critic, Godzilla FAQ offers a comprehensive rundown of every Godzilla film ever made, in-depth biographies of major players in the franchise's history, and enough raw information to rebuild a ravaged Tokyo. Don't miss out on this ideal gift for cinema fans, lizard lovers, and pop culture fiends of all ages!
Book Synopsis Godzilla at World's End by : Marc Cerasini
Download or read book Godzilla at World's End written by Marc Cerasini and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of teenage science students and a team of U.S. Army Rangers discover an ancient race of crystalline beings beneath the South Pole. These beings soon create a race of gigantic monsters, and the young scientists and soldiers must join forces with Godzilla, king of the monsters, to prevent humantity being destroyed.
Book Synopsis The Kaiju Connection by : Jason Barr
Download or read book The Kaiju Connection written by Jason Barr and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a kaiju a kaiju? What makes an ape a large ape, and why do we sympathize with some, such as King Kong, and not with others, such as Konga? And what makes a giant person become a "monster"? This book provides a new perspective on kaiju and reveals that our boundaries for the genre are perhaps not so solid. The work focus primarily on newer kaiju works, ranging from Colossal to Shin Godzilla to Godzilla vs. Kong, but also touches on classics such as King Kong, Mighty Joe Young, Godzilla Raids Again, and lesser-known works such as What to Do With the Dead Kaiju? and Agon. Like our ancestors we have collectively adopted giant monsters into our culture, especially our pop culture. Within the domains where giant monsters walk, we experience the rigidity of our moral structures, and the fleeting borders of our definitions of humanity. Within the kaiju film genre rest our own assumptions about what makes a monster a monster, and, more importantly, what makes a human a human.
Download or read book Godzilla 2000 written by Marc Cerasini and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "World Fandom magazine called Marc Cerasini's 1996 novel "Godzilla Returns "an astounding debut of a new series." In Cerasini's new Godzilla adventure, teenager Kip Daniels is grabbed by two mysterious men after he breaks all previous records on a new video game called Battleground 2000. The military created the game to recruit new talent for training on a high-tech flying weapon to be used against Godzilla and other giant monsters who have been wreaking havoc worldwide. Kip and five other teenagers agree to join the secret organization called G-Force USA, but do they stand a chance against the mighty Godzilla? This nonstop science fiction thriller takes readers from the Russian Mir space station to the wheat fields of Kansas, and from a secret Pentagon testing base to the top of Mount Rushmore!
Book Synopsis Godzilla on My Mind by : William Tsutsui
Download or read book Godzilla on My Mind written by William Tsutsui and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This year, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his first appearance on the screen, the original, uncut version of Godzilla was released in American theaters to the delight of Sci-Fi and B-Movie fans everywhere. Ever since Godzilla (or, Gojira, as he is known in Japan) crawled out of his radioactive birthplace to cut a swath of destruction through Tokyo, he has claimed a place alongside King Kong and others in the movie monster pantheon. He is the third most recognizable Japanese celebrity in the United States, and his fan base continues to grow as children today prove his enduring appeal. Now, Bill Tsutsui, a life-long fan and historian, takes a light-hearted look at the big, green, radioactive lizard, revealing how he was born and how he became a megastar. With humorous anecdotes, Godzilla on My Mind explores his lasting cultural impact on the world. This book is sure to be welcomed by pop culture enthusiasts, fans, and historians alike.
Book Synopsis Godzilla: Rulers of Earth, Vol. 5 by : Chris Mowry
Download or read book Godzilla: Rulers of Earth, Vol. 5 written by Chris Mowry and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government experiments with new forms of energy bring unintended consequences... SpaceGodzilla! Plus Battra and Kumonga! Collects issues #17_20.
Download or read book Dinosaur Memories written by Allen Debus and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dinosaur memories are hard to forget! Most who revel in the current renaissance in dinosaur science, art, fiction and movies, or who enjoy the other appealing prehistoric animals so well popularized by the media have fond recollections of what it was like “growing up dinosaur.” Together with wife Diane and his father Allen G. Debus, Allen A. Debus unveils treasured dinosaur memories and stories about prehistoric animals and paleo-people, spanning from the cold-blooded dinosaur ‘era,’ to the modern wave dinosaur renaissance. Beginning with fondly recalled roadtrips to prehistoric places where T. rex still reigns, Dinosaur Memories ventures into the realm of thunder beasts and explores the rich ‘pop-cultural’ appeal of prehistoric animals. If you’ve ever collected dinosaurs, enjoyed fossil hunting or visits to see the old bones in museums, Dinosaur Memories is a book you’ll still recall years from now! Thirty-five chapters are grouped into seven sections titled, “Roads Into Prehistory,” “Thunder Beasts,” “Dinosaur Worlds,” “Fantasy Dinosaurs,” “Fossil Trickery,” “Paleo-people,” and “Rustlin’ up Dinos.”
Download or read book Spinegrinder written by Clive Davies and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First came video and more recently high definition home entertainment, through to the internet with its streaming videos and not strictly legal peer-to-peer capabilities. With so many sources available, today’s fan of horror and exploitation movies isn’t necessarily educated on paths well-trodden — Universal classics, 1950s monster movies, Hammer — as once they were. They may not even be born and bred on DAWN OF THE DEAD. In fact, anyone with a bit of technical savvy (quickly becoming second nature for the born-clicking generation) may be viewing MYSTICS IN BALI and S.S. EXPERIMENT CAMP long before ever hearing of Bela Lugosi or watching a movie directed by Dario Argento. In this world, H.G. Lewis, so-called “godfather of gore,” carries the same stripes as Alfred Hitchcock, “master of suspense.” SPINEGRINDER is one man’s ambitious, exhaustive and utterly obsessive attempt to make sense of over a century of exploitation and cult cinema, of a sort that most critics won’t care to write about. One opinion; 8,000 reviews (or thereabouts.
Download or read book The Kaiju Film written by Jason Barr and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis All Around Monstrous: Monster Media in Their Historical Contexts by : Verena Bernardi
Download or read book All Around Monstrous: Monster Media in Their Historical Contexts written by Verena Bernardi and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know all kinds of monsters. Vampires who suck human blood, werewolves who harass tourists in London or Paris, zombies who long to feast on our brains, or Godzilla, who is famous in and outside of Japan for destroying whole cities at once. Regardless of their monstrosity, all of these creatures are figments of the human mind and as real as they may seem, monsters are and always have been constructed by human beings. In other words, they are imagined. How they are imagined, however, depends on many different aspects and changes throughout history. The present volume provides an insight into the construction of monstrosity in different kinds of media, including literature, film, and TV series. It will show how and by whom monsters are really created, how time changes the perception of monsters and what characterizes specific monstrosities in their specific historical contexts. The book will provide valuable insights for scholars in different fields, whose interest focuses on either media studies or history.
Book Synopsis Wolverine: Weapon X by : Marc Cerasini
Download or read book Wolverine: Weapon X written by Marc Cerasini and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-10-25 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original novel starring one of Marvel Comics' most famous figures is a harrowing chapter in the captivating saga of Wolverine.
Book Synopsis The Thrill of Repulsion by : William Burns
Download or read book The Thrill of Repulsion written by William Burns and published by Schiffer + ORM. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of lists, reviews, and interviews about the horror genre in film and beyond Includes categorical lists and in-depth articles covering horror movies, literature, television, graphic novels, and music Horror is a dominant form of cultural expression in the 20th/21st centuries
Book Synopsis The Toho Studios Story by : Stuart Galbraith
Download or read book The Toho Studios Story written by Stuart Galbraith and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-05-16 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception in 1933, Toho Co., Ltd., Japan's most famous movie production company and distributor, has produced and/or distributed some of the most notable films ever to come out of Asia, including Seven Samurai, Godzilla, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Kwaidan, Woman in the Dunes, Ran, Shall We Dance?, Ringu, and Spirited Away. While the western world often defines Toho by its iconic classics, which include the Godzilla franchise and many of the greatest films of the legendary director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune, these pictures represent but a tiny fraction of Toho's rich history. The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography provides a complete picture of every Toho feature the Japanese studio produced and released—as well as foreign films that it distributed—during its first 75 years. Presented chronologically, each entry in the filmography includes, where applicable, the original Japanese title, a direct translation of that title, the film's international, U.S. release, and alternate titles; production credits, including each film's producers, director, screenwriters, cinematographers, art directors, and composers, among others; casts with character names; production companies, technical specs, running times, and release dates; U.S. release data including distributor, whether the film was released subtitled or dubbed, and alternate versions; domestic and international awards; and plot synopses.
