Kaiju Film
Subtitle: A Critical Study of Cinema's Biggest Monsters
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers; McFarland
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780786499632
Subjects: Film criticism; Motion pictures, japan
Description: "The Kaiju (strange monster) film genre has themes that go well beyond the "big monsters stomping on cities" motif. This critical examination of kaiju considers the entirety of the genre, how it has crossed cultures from its original folkloric inspirations in both the U.S. and Japan and how it continues to reflect national values to audiences"--