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Godzilla Capstone Project
Hello, and welcome to my Capstone Project. Here I will be looking at the Godzilla franchise from a disaster and transnational cinema approach. The original Gojira film was a response to the Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Pacific Nuclear tests. Over time, both Japan and America would take the character to reflect their specific social and political issues. I will also be examining how an American distributor altered the film for American audiences to better fit the conventions of the American monster movie genre that reflects America`s own relationship with nuclear weapons. As social and political issues changed, the franchise continued to be symptomatic texts. For Godzilla 2014, the issue is climate change. Shin Godzilla tackles the 3/11 triple disasters.
"Horror will always be with us. It was around at the beginning of the birth of cinema. It's a genre that translates around the world, it`s a universal language. You wanna make [horror movies] because you have a story to tell."
JOHN CARPENTER
About
My name is Humberto Juarez and I am a Critical Media Studies student at The University of Texas at Dallas. I am a first-generation graduate in my family. I am interested in transnational cinema. My focus is on monster and kaiju movies and how the genre has been translated by different filmmakers across the globe.