巽先生のご論文 "On the Monstrous Planet: or, How Godzilla Took a Roman Holiday" では、1954年公開の映画『ゴジラ』が取り上げられ、その語源と起源はもちろんのこと、明治維新期より「恐竜」伝説が神道に組み込まれていた背景や、「怪獣」をめぐる文学的想像力の環太平洋的な相互交渉を詳細に確認されながら、ゴジラがいかに、日本の高度成長期を盛り上げてきた国民的英雄、あるいは「キメラ」であったかが、探求されています。映画、SF にご興味のある方は、ぜひお見逃しなく!
The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies Lup)
Edited by Sonja Fritzsche
Pages: 290
234 x 156 mm
Published by Liverpool University Press
Jun 2014
Hardback £75.00
【CONTENTS】
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction - Sonja Fritzsche
PART I: AFRIC
1. The Environmental Dominant in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi
Ritch Calvin
PART II: ASIA
2. Death Ray on a Coral Island as China’s First Science Fiction Film
Jie Zhang
3. Indian Science Fiction Cinema: An Overview
Jessica Langer and Dominic Alessio
4. On the Monstrous Planet: or, How Godzilla Took a Roman Holiday
Takayuki Tatsumi, translated by Seth Jacobowitz
PART III: EUROPE
5. Invaders, Launchpads and Hybrids: The Importance of Transmediality in British Science Fiction Film in the 1950s
Derek Johnston
6. Gender and Apocalypse in Eastern European Cinema
Jason Merrill
7. Casting for a Socialist Earth: Multicultural Whiteness in the East German/Polish Science-Fiction Film Silent Star (1960)
Evan Torner
8. Looking for French Science Fiction Cinema
Daniel Tron
9. Science Fiction Interventions in Irish Cinema
Katie Moylan
10. The Uncomfortable Relationship Between Science Fiction and Italy:Film, Humor, and Gender
Rafaella Boccolini
PART IV: NORTH AMERICA
11. Are Black Women the Future of Man? The Role of Black Women in Political and Cultural Transformation in Science Fiction from the US and Cameroon
Robyn Citizen
PART V: SOUTH AMERICA
12. Maradona on the Moon: Postcolonial Politics and Cultural Hybridity in Argentina’s Goodbye Dear Moon
Mariano Paz
13. Alert Limit! A Short History of Brazilian Science Fiction Film and Its Fight for Survival in a Rarefied Atmosphere
Alfredo Suppia
PART VI: DIGITAL CINEMA
14. Digital Film and Audiences
Pawel Frelik
Recommended Viewing
Index
【関連リンク】
- Liverpool University Press
- 慶應アート・センターより『ゴジラとアトム』が刊行され巽先生が寄稿されています(CPA: 2012/04/01)
- 小松左京氏が序文を寄稿した『3.11の未来―日本・SF・想像力』(笠井潔氏、巽先生監修)が、今月作品社より刊行されます(CPA: 2011/08/17)
【関連書籍】
The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies) (Liverpool UP, 2014)
巽先生寄稿『ゴジラとアトム——原子力は「光の国」の夢を見たか』(慶應義塾大学アート・センター、2012年)
巽先生ほか監修『3.11の未来―日本・SF・想像力』(作品社、2011年)