Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again
(Sprache: Englisch)
"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...
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"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. This book finally provides the first-ever English-language translations of Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again, revealing valuable insights into Kayama's vision for the Godzilla story"--
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Contents Note on Japanese Names
Godzilla: Godzilla in Tokyo
A Strange Bright Light from the Ocean Floor
The Kaiju of ¿do Island
The Eerie Island of ¿do
Godzilla Appears
The Mysterious Trilobite
The Underground Laboratory
We Mustn’t Kill
The Tokyo Godzilla Society
Godzilla Attacks the Metropolitan Center
The Oxygen Destroyer
Prayer for Peace
Godzilla Raids Again: Godzilla in Osaka
Flight over the Ocean
Two Kaiju
Professor Yamane
Godzilla Approaches
Crowds of Evacuees
The Escaped Prisoners
Godzilla Makes Landfall
Anguirus
The Hokkaido Branch
The Far North
Celebrating the Big Catch
Godzilla Appears in the Northern Seas
Kobayashi’s Plane Meets Its End
Nature’s Victory Song
Afterword: Translating an Icon
Jeffrey Angles
Glossary of Names, Places, and Ideas
Autoren-Porträt von Shigeru Kayama
Shigeru Kayama (1904–1975) was a science fiction writer and scenarist whose early stories about monsters and mutated sea creatures attracted the attention of T¿h¿ Studios, which asked him to draft the first two Godzilla films. The film Half Human by T¿h¿ Studios was also based on one of his stories, and he contributed to the screenplay for the T¿h¿ film The Mysterians. Jeffrey Angles is professor of Japanese at Western Michigan University. He is author of Writing the Love of Boys (Minnesota, 2011) and award-winning translator of Orikuchi Shinobu’s The Book of the Dead (Minnesota, 2017) and Hiromi Ito’s The Thorn Puller.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Shigeru Kayama
- 2023, 233 Seiten, Maße: 13,9 x 20,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Jeffrey Angles
- Verlag: Combined Academic Publ.
- ISBN-10: 1517915236
- ISBN-13: 9781517915230
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.10.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
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