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Shawn Pryor’s (he/him) work includes the middle-grade graphic novel Fast Break (FSG/Macmillan, 2025), the hi/lo reader series The Gamer (Capstone Publishing), the Cash and Carrie series (Action Lab Entertainment), and several books for Capstone’s Jake Maddox Sports and Adventure series, Graphic Library, and the Kids Sports series. In his free time, he enjoys reading, cooking, listening to streaming music playlists, and talking about why Zack from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is the greatest Black superhero of all time. Jason Barr is an associate professor at Blue Ridge Community College. His work has appeared in African American Review, Explicator, The Journal of Continuing Higher Education, and The Journal of Caribbean Literatures, among others. He lives in Weyers Cave, Virginia.

Klappentext

Celebrate the world of movie monsters and beasts with Kaiju Unleashed, a complete reference guide to strange creatures in film and how they came to be.

Kaiju (Japanese for “strange creature”) is a film genre that emerged in Japan in the early ’50s. The movies center on giant monsters battling humans, machines, or other beasts. First popular in the ’50s and ’60s, this film category has stomped its way back into mainstream culture.

This comprehensive guide features:

• A foreword by Jason Barr, author of The Kaiju Film and The Kaiju Connection
• A thorough discussion of monster movies (Gamera; Rodan; Destroy All Monsters)
• Insight into how kaiju has impacted international films (Ant-Man; Attack of the 50-Foot Woman; Jurassic Park)

• Stunning movie posters and film stills, plus fan-made tributes to some of the kaiju classics (Godzilla; King Kong; Mothra; Pacific Rim)
  If you are a kaiju fan or are interested in kaiju’s cultural influence worldwide, this display-worthy volume provides the perfect general introduction to the genre, reference to its film highlights, and celebration of its practitioners, trends, and stories.

  Zusammenfassung
  Kaiju Unleashed offers a general introduction to the exciting film genre, serves as a guidebook to its film highlights, and celebrates its practitioners, trends, and stories.

  Inhalt

  Foreword 
  Introduction 
  STRANGE BEASTS
  CHAPTER ONE | Beginnings 
  CHAPTER TWO | Godzilla 
  CHAPTER THREE | The Showa Era (1954–1975)
  CHAPTER FOUR | The Heisei Era (1984–1995)
  CHAPTER FIVE | A New Millennium 
  CHAPTER SIX | King Kong 
  CHAPTER SEVEN | Kong vs. Godzilla
  CHAPTER EIGHT | Gamera 
  CHAPTER NINE | Rodan 
  CHAPTER TEN | Mothra 
  CHAPTER ELEVEN | Daimajin 
  CHAPTER TWELVE | Ultraman 
  CHAPTER THIRTEEN | Other Japanese Kaiju 
  GLOBAL DOMINATION
  CHAPTER FOURTEEN | International Kaiju Films 
  CHAPTER FIFTEEN | Animated Kaiju 
  CHAPTER SIXTEEN | Comic Books, Manga, and Prose 
  CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | Kaiju in Pop Culture 
  Conclusion 
  Index 
  Sources 
  Image Credits 
  Acknowledgments 
  About the Author