The Kaiju (strange monster) 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.
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