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Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey Angles; Shigeru Kayama

Book ID
112026422
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Year
2023
Tongue
en-US
Weight
140 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781452969855

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✦ Synopsis

The first English translations of the original novellas about the iconic kaij Ε« Godzilla

Godzilla emerged from the sea to devastate Tokyo in the now-classic 1954 film, produced by Tōhō Studios and directed by Ishirō Honda, creating a global sensation and launching one of the world's most successful movie and media franchises. Awakened and transformed by nuclear weapons testing, Godzilla serves as a terrifying metaphor for humanity's shortsighted destructiveness: this was the intent of Shigeru Kayama, the science fiction writer who drafted the 1954 original film and its first sequel and, in 1955, published these novellas.

Although the Godzilla films have been analyzed in detail by cultural historians, film scholars, and generations of fans, Kayama's two Godzilla novellas--both classics of Japanese young-adult science fiction--have never been available in English. This book finally provides English-speaking fans...

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