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Author Archives: Alex Adams

Doom, Détente, Dr Pepper: ‘Godzilla 1984’ and ‘Godzilla 1985’

By Alex Adams

Also known as The Return of Godzilla and simply Godzilla, Godzilla 1984 is what we would now call a reboot: part remake, part sequel, a fresh start that retrieved some things from Godzilla’s past while discarding others…

January 31, 2022 in Film & TV.

The Golden Hydra: King Ghidorah, Astro-Colonizers, and Cold War Empire

By Alex Adams

In Toho’s 1965 tokusatsu spectacular Invasion of the Astro Monster, humanity makes contact with ruthless hive-mind aliens from Planet X, a new stellar body discovered on the far side of Jupiter…

October 6, 2021 in Film & TV.

Rise of the Smog God: Ecological Apocalypse in ‘Godzilla vs. Hedorah’

By Alex Adams

Many of the fifteen Shōwa films are rich with social commentary and formal and stylistic innovations. Perhaps the boldest of them all—and perhaps the most unfairly maligned—is 1971’s psychedelic eco-horror Godzilla vs. Hedorah…

June 15, 2021 in Film & TV.

The Greatest Shōwa on Earth: 1962’s ‘King Kong vs. Godzilla’

By Alex Adams

Ishiro Honda’s 1954 Godzilla is perhaps the most widely praised Kaiju film ever made. A special effects masterpiece at the time, the monochrome mother of all monster movies had bleak, fume-laden visuals, a gloomy, mournful tone, and an unambiguous anti-nuclear message…

March 25, 2021 in Film & TV.

“It Ain’t No Man”: The Colonial Iconography of ‘Predator’

By Alex Adams

For as well as being a tremendously enjoyable sci-fi horror romp, Predator is also a novel engagement with the iconography, aesthetics, and politics associated with Cold War-era military interventions in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere…

December 3, 2020 in Film & TV.
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