Peter H. Brothers
Auteur van Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men: The Fantastic Cinema of Ishiro Honda
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Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men: The Fantastic Cinema of Ishiro Honda (2009) 13 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
Atomic Dreams and the Nuclear Nightmare: The Making of Godzilla (1954) (2015) 4 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
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Atomic Dreams and the Nuclear Nightmare: The Making… door Peter H. Brothers
An impressive work of scholarship in telling the story of Japan's greatest cinematic export....Godzilla (1954). To us Americans, the audiences made a hit out of a city-destroying uber-dinosaur. For the Japanese. Ishiro Honda tried, as the book says, to address a serious subject in a format no one took seriously. He presented an anti-war, anti-nuclear allegory that tapped into the Japanese experience of the American fire-bombing campaign. The result, in either case, has been one of the great science fiction hits of all time as well as the longest-running franchise in cinematic history still pumping out movies. Great book.… (meer)
The first 60 pages was a pretty good biography of Honda, a company-man studio director ground down by the increasing juvenility of the Godzilla movies. However, the rest of the book is write-ups of the individual films that don't have any plot summaries and thus if like me, you last saw most of the Honda movies when you were 8, this part is nearly useless.
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- 3
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- 19
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- #609,294
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- 3.2
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- 2
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- 4