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Gojira vs. Godzilla Bibliography

Broderick, Mick ed. Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film. New York: Kegan Paul International, 1996.

Fletcher, Angus. Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.

Freud, Sigmund. “Recollection, Repetition and Working Through.” In Collected Papers, Volume II. Translated by Joan Riviere. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1960:  pg. 366 – 367.

Hirano, Kyoko. Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945 – 1952. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

Holden, Stephen. “He’s Back! And There Goes Tokyo Once Again.” New York Times (18 August, 2000): E12.

Kerner, Aaron. “Gojira vs. Godzilla.” In Mark Franko, ed. Ritual and Event. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Kristeva, Julia. Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia. Translated by Leon S. Roudiez. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: an essay on abjection. Translated by Leon S. Roudiez. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.

Kristeva, Julia. Strangers to Ourselves. Translated by Leon S. Roudiez. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

Lifton, Robert Jay (1967) Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, New York: Random House.

Napier, Susan. Anime: from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, New York: Palgrave, 2000.

Napier, Susan. “Panic Sites: The Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira.” The Journal of Japanese Studies vol. 19, no. 2 (Summer 1993): 327 - 351.

Noriega, Chon. “Godzilla and the Japanese Nightmare: When ‘Them!’ Is U.S.” Cinema Journal vol. 27, no. 1 (Autumn 1987): 63-77; reprinted in Broderick, Mick ed. Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film. New York: Kegan Paul International 1996: pg. 54 – 74.

Oë, Kenzaburo. Hiroshima Notes. Translated by David L. Swain and Toshi Yonezawa, New York: Grove Press, 1996.

Owens, Craig. “The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism.” In Brian Wallis, ed. Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation. New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art in association with David R. Godin, Publisher, Inc., 1988: pg. 203 – 235.

Richie, Donald. “‘Mono no aware’: Hiroshima in Film.” In Mick Broderick ed. Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film, New York: Kegan Paul International, 1996: pg. 20 – 37.

Sasaki, Yuichiro (ed.) Scenes of A-bomb Explosion Hiroshima Photograph. Hiroshima: publisher unknown, 1954.

Tanaka, Shinjiro. “‘Death ash’: The Experience of 23 Japanese Fishermen.” Japan Quarterly vol. 2, no. 1 (January – March 1955): 36 – 42.

Shapiro, Jerome. “Atomic Bomb Cinema: Illness, Suffering, and the Apocalyptic Narrative.” Literature and Medicine vol. 17, no. 1 (1998): 126 - 148.

Shapiro, Jerome. Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Sims, Calvin. “A Curtain Call for Godzilla, Back From the Dead (Again),” New York Times (2 December, 1999): E1.

Treat, John Whittier (1995) Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Tsutsui, William. Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

White, Hayden. The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1990.

White, Hayden. Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1999.