Godzilla (1954) / Shin Godzilla (2016)

Cineposium member Michael Mazzacane examines Ishiro Honda's Godzilla, and Shin Godzilla, co-directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi.

For further insight:

Books

Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa

Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men: The Fantastic Cinema of Ishiro Honda

A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series

JSTOR

“(STILL) COOL JAPAN.” Re-Imagining Japan after Fukushima, by TAMAKI MIHIC, ANU Press, Australia, 2020, pp. 87–116. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv103xdt4.10. Accessed 28 Apr. 2020.

Napier, Susan J. “Panic Sites: The Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira.” Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, 1993, pp. 327–351. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/132643. Accessed 28 Apr. 2020.

CHO, YU-FANG. “REMEMBERING GOJIRA/GODZILLA: Nuclearism and Racial Reproduction in America’s Asia-Pacific.” Racial Ecologies, edited by Leilani Nishime and Kim D. Hester Williams, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2018, pp. 220–233. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvcwnm95.19. Accessed 28 Apr. 2020.

“Horror after Hiroshima.” Introduction to Japanese Horror Film, by Colette Balmain, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2008, pp. 30–49. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g09x15.9. Accessed 28 Apr. 2020.

DANTER, STEFAN. “Destructive Villain or Gigantic Hero?: The Transformation of Godzilla in Contemporary Popular Culture.” The Supervillain Reader, edited by Robert Moses Peaslee and Robert G. Weiner, by Stephen Graham Jones and Randy Duncan, University Press of Mississippi, JACKSON, 2020, pp. 190–202. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvx5w9cj.23. Accessed 28 Apr. 2020.