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Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again
Taschenbuch von Shigeru Kayama
Sprache: Englisch

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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"--
"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"--
Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781517915230
ISBN-10: 1517915236
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kayama, Shigeru
Übersetzung: Angles, Jeffrey
Hersteller: Combined Academic Publ.
University of Minnesota Press
Maße: 206 x 139 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Shigeru Kayama
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.10.2023
Gewicht: 0,294 kg
Artikel-ID: 126794480
Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781517915230
ISBN-10: 1517915236
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kayama, Shigeru
Übersetzung: Angles, Jeffrey
Hersteller: Combined Academic Publ.
University of Minnesota Press
Maße: 206 x 139 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Shigeru Kayama
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.10.2023
Gewicht: 0,294 kg
Artikel-ID: 126794480
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