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Selected Works of Aaron Gerow
Contribution to Book
Wrestling with Godzilla: Intertextuality, Childish Spectatorship, and the National Body
In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage (2006)
  • Aaron Gerow
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Abstract
Critiques the view that the 1960s Godzilla is but kiddie fare by linking the Big Lizard with Rikidozan, Sugiura Shigeru and national irreverency in an atomic age.
Keywords
  • Japanese cinema,
  • Godzilla,
  • Sugiura Shigeru,
  • Rikidozan,
  • kaiju eiga
Disciplines
Publication Date
2006
Editor
William M. Tsutsui, Michiko Ito
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Citation Information
Aaron Gerow. "Wrestling with Godzilla: Intertextuality, Childish Spectatorship, and the National Body" In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage (2006) p. 63 - 81
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/aarongerow/28/