INI234H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Invisible Monsters, Environmental Determinism, Undercover Brothers
30 Jan 2018
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Ini234 - lecture #4: godzilla (gojra): the monstrous in post-wwii tokyo. Throughout japanese popular culture tokyo is doomed and destroyed. Different approach to the city than what we saw in american popular culture. In lm noir or suburban lms nothing was destroyed. Existed but people left it or lived in it. There is a dinosaur chilling at the bottom of the ocean but it is woken up and enlarged through the testing of hydrogen bombs and takes over the city. Has to create new technology but what happens when it is used. Succeed at killing godzilla but tokyo is in ruins. Rst giant monster movie to emerge and to become a de ning feature of japanese popular culture. Godzilla characterized by events that happened in the 1950s. Us using paci c ocean as testing hydrogen weapons and detonated on bikini atoll island.
