Resources Discussed

  • Olson, Author Chris. “A Brief History of Postwar Japanese Cinema.” A Brief History of Postwar Japanese Cinema, 10 Dec. 2014,

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  • Ebiri, Bilge. “Mothra, Jigoku, Godzilla: A Postwar Japanese Horror Primer.” Vulture, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2018

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  • Hawkins, Mhairi Shaw. “Depictions of the Bomb and Nuclear Apocalypse in Japanese Anime.” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

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  • Deamer, David. Deleuze, Japanese Cinema, and the Atom Bomb: The Spectre of Impossibility. Bloomsbury, 2016.

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  • Google Slide Presentation from previous class. (TW: some things on this slideshow may be triggering to some due to nature of the artist.)

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  • Goehrke, April M. Ero Ka? Guro Nanoka? Erotic Grotesque Nonsense and Escalation in Mass Culture. Order No. 10750861 New York University, 2018 Ann Arbor ProQuest. 29 Apr. 2022 .

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Brandt, Kim. “:Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times.(Asia Pacific Modern.).” The American Historical Review, vol. 113, no. 5, 2008, pp. 1504–1505., https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.113.5.1504.

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