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Humanities, Volume 13, Issue 5

October 2024 - 32 articles

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Cover Story: In our book Japan’s Green Monsters (2018), we offered an ecocritical analysis of twentieth century kaijū eiga franchises like Godzilla, Mothra, and Gamera. This article serves as a follow-up, examining ongoing environmental issues in Japanese monster movie media of the twenty-first century. Japan’s Tōhō Studios has used their radioactive creation’s global success to breathe new life into their franchise with Shin Godzilla (2016), an animated trilogy, Godzilla Minus One (2023), and short-format media like Chibi Godzilla and Godziban. Similarly, Godzilla’s longtime competitor Gamera also returned in an animated series produced by Kadokawa Corporation, Gamera Rebirth (2023). Our analysis reveals that today’s productions remain steeped in environmental commentary, with these commentaries being fragmented and updated for new concerns of the twenty-first century. View this paper

Articles (32)

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18 Pages

21 October 2024

Since ancient times, music has been instrumental in giving life to the stories we build our identities and cultures around. I will examine how, in our time, music creates new myths by creating its own heroes and heroines through capital and the star...

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2,203 Views
9 Pages

Hybrid: Reading Godzilla Through Posthumanism

  • Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns,
  • Emiliano Aguilar and
  • Jorge Eduardo Traversa

21 October 2024

This essay proposes to read the classic cycle of Godzilla films (roughly, 1954–1995) using a posthuman perspective that makes its emphasis on animal, vegetal and mineral life. We will use posthuman and materialist philosophy to analyze hybrid m...

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1,346 Views
14 Pages

19 October 2024

Human beings have had beautiful dreams for a harmonious world since centuries ago; this can be termed cosmopolitanism, shijie datong, or global community. Based on theories expounded by Confucius, Tönnies, Anderson, Bauman, Derrida, and Appiah,...

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3,098 Views
20 Pages

18 October 2024

One amongst many of the defining characteristics of so-called ‘late stage’ capitalism are human-animal relationships that have become acrimonious, hostile, or even monstrous in nature. A foundational premise of monster theory, and one tha...

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2 Citations
2,841 Views
11 Pages

16 October 2024

Ecocriticism is an advancing field in literature that has opened up avenues in reading world literature from a whole new perspective. This paper seeks to flesh out ecocritical concerns in the selected poems of Mahmoud Darwish and Naomi Shihab Nye by...

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1,593 Views
11 Pages

9 October 2024

Chris Bush’s Faustus: That Damned Woman (first performed in 2020) is a feminist and contemporary adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. The magus is a woman who travels through time from the seventeenth century to the far dis...

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2,302 Views
18 Pages

8 October 2024

After a decade of dormancy following the release of Tōhō Studios’ Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), Godzilla and other kaijū burst back onto the scene with Legendary Pictures’ Godzilla (2014). Several American sequels and a tele...

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1,787 Views
16 Pages

8 October 2024

In her 2010 article “Aesthetic Wit(h)nessing in the Era of Trauma”, Griselda Pollock lamented the aperture between psychology, particularly that of PTSD, and esthetics in the search to bear witness to traumatic experience. This article ex...

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16 Pages

4 October 2024

Posthuman discourse calls for a fundamental shift away from modern anthropocentric thought. This shift stems from the reflection that many of the problems in the modern capitalist world, including climate change, are rooted in anthropocentric attitud...

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