Tracking King Kong
Subtitle: a Hollywood icon in world culture
By: Cynthia Erb.
Edition: Rev ed.
Series: Contemporary approaches to film and television series
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780814334300
Subjects: King Kong (Motion picture : 1933); King Kong films -- History and criticism; King Kong (Fictitious character)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A showman's dream : the production and release of King Kong; title: Camera adventure, dangerous contact : documentaries and genre traditions behind King Kong; title: Monstrous returns in the postwar context : Mighty Joe Young and Godzilla; title: Gorilla queen and other tales : male spectatorship and the King Kong parodies; title: King Kong's melancholy : a reading of Peter Jackson's King Kong.