Books on Godzilla, in English
This box lists books and book chapters on Godzilla, available at KU (some are upon purchase request by KU patron). To find journal articles on Godzilla, please search KU's online catalog. Bibliography of Asian Studies is the most recommended database.
100 Science Fiction Films by Call Number: PN1995.9.S26 G73 2013ISBN: 9781844574575Publication Date: 2013Includes an entry titled "Gojira (Godzilla), Ishirô Honda, 1954."
All Around Monstrous by ISBN: 1622734580Publication Date: 2019Includes a chapter titled " From Tokyo’s Destroyer to International Icon: Godzilla and Japanese Monstrosity in the Postwar Age." This book si not available at KU yet. If interested, please send a purchase request to the KU Libraries.
American Studies by Call Number: E169.1 .A448 2009ISBN: 9781405113519Publication Date: 2009Includes a chapter titled "Waiting for Godzilla: toward a Globalist Theme Park."
Anti-Japan: the Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia by Call Number: DS518.45 .C46 2019ISBN: 9781478001881Publication Date: 2019Includes a chapter titled "When Bruce Lee meets Gojira : Transimperial Characters, Anti-Japanism, Anti-Americanism, and the Failure of Decolonization."
Asian Cinemas: a Reader and Guide by Call Number: PN1993.5.A75 A87 2006ISBN: 0748617760Publication Date: 2006Includes several chapters on Godzilla.
The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema by ISBN: 9781476620206Publication Date: 2015Several chapters discuss Godzilla in the context of the nucear experience of Japan. This book has not been purchased yet. If interested, please fill KU Libraries' online purchase suggestion form (https://lib.ku.edu/services).
Bambi vs. Godzilla: on the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business by Call Number: PN1993.5.U6 M244 2007ISBN: 9780375422539Publication Date: 2007
B. Horror and Other Stories by Call Number: PS3563.A9644 B45 1999ISBN: 0942979613Publication Date: 1999Includes a chapter titled "Mary Magdalena versus Godzilla."
The Cinema of Japan and Korea by Call Number: PN1993.5.J3 C57 2004ISBN: 1904764118Publication Date: 2005Includes a chapter titled "Gojira / Godzilla: Inoshiro Honda, Japan, 1954."
A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series by Call Number: PN1995.9.G63 K36 1997ISBN: 0786403004Publication Date: 1997
Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture by Call Number: DS822.5 .C69 1996ISBN: 0824818547Publication Date: 1996Includes a chapter titled "Panic Sites: the Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira."- Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Arts Collectives from Godzilla, Godzookie to the Barnstormers by Call Number: N6538.A83 C48 2009ISBN: 9789881752239Publication Date: 2009
Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters by Call Number: PN1995.9.G63 T78 2004ISBN: 1403964742Publication Date: 2004- Godzilla : the assault of modernism and the counterattack of tradition by Call Number: Thesis 1999 G548Publication Date: 1999Unpublished M.A. thesis.
Books on Godzilla, in English
In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage by Call Number: DS822.5 .I485 2006ISBN: 9781403964618Publication Date: 2006
Introducing Japanese Popular Culture by Call Number: DS822.5 .I588 2018ISBN: 9781138852105Publication Date: 2017-12-06Includes "The Prehistory of Soft Power : Godzilla, Cheese, and the American Consumption of Japan " and "Apocalyptic Animation : In the Wake of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Godzilla, and Baudrillard."
Invisible Colors: the Arts of the Atomic Age by Call Number: N72.T4 D43 2018ISBN: 9780262038546Publication Date: 2018Includes a chapter titled "Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Godzilla and Other Cold War Monstrosities."- Half a Century of Japanese Theater byCall Number: PL782.E5 H35 1999Publication Date: 1999Vol. 3 includes two chapters on Godzilla.
Ishiro Honda: a Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa by Call Number: PN1998.3.H68 R94 2017ISBN: 9780819570871Publication Date: 2017
Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts by Call Number: PN1993.5.J3 J27 2007ISBN: 9780415328470Publication Date: 2008Includes a chapter titled "The Menace from the South Seas: Honda Ishirō's Godzilla (1954)."
Media Heterotopias by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780822370147Publication Date: 2018Includes a chapter titled "Heterotopic Monstrotisy: the Host and Godzilla."
Movie migrations : transnational genre flows and South Korean cinema by ISBN: 9780813569970Publication Date: 2015Includes a chapter titled "From Gojira to Goemul: "Host" Cities and "Post" Histories in East Asian Monster Movies." This book is available upon request. If interested, submit an online purchase request (https://lib.ku.edu/services).
Off the Planet: Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema by Call Number: PN1995.9.S26 O34 2004ISBN: 0861966449Publication Date: 2004Includes a chapter titled "Atomic Overtones and Primitive Undertones : Akira Ifukube’s Sound Design for Godzilla."
One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now by Call Number: N6538.A83 O54 2006ISBN: 9780300120592Publication Date: 2006Includes a chapter titled "Origin Myths: a Short and Incomplete History of Godzilla."
Performing the Force: Essays on Immersion into Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Environments by Call Number: QA76.76.I59 P47 2001ISBN: 0786408952Publication Date: 2001Includes a chapter titled "Godzilla Attacks the World Wide Web."
Ritual and Event: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Call Number: BF365 .R57 2007ISBN: 9780415701815Publication Date: 2006Includes a chapter titled "Gojira vs Godzilla : catastrophic allegories."
Science Fiction America: Essays on SF Cinema by Call Number: PN1995.9.S26 S275 2006ISBN: 0786421495Publication Date: 2005Includes a chapter titled "Godzilla vs. the military-industrial complex."
Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy by ISBN: 9781101904930Publication Date: 2018Includes a chapter titled "Pop Culture Politics: Godzilla, Rock & Roll, and the Romantic Spirit." This book is not available in the library. If interested, please submit a purchase request to the KU Libraries.
Tracking King Kong: a Hollywood Icon in World Culture by Call Number: PN1997.K437 E72 2009ISBN: 9780814334300Publication Date: 2009Includes a chapter titled "Monstrous Returns in the Postwar Context : Mighty Joe Young and Godzilla."
Who Is That Man? In Search of the Real Bob Dylan by Call Number: ML420.D98 D34 2012ISBN: 9781401323394Publication Date: 2012Includes a chapter titled "Godzilla vs. Mothra: Two Icons of the ’60s Meet under False Pretenses."
Books on Godzilla, Japanese
This box lists books discuss Godzilla in the context of Japanese culture, society and/or history.
- ゴジラの精神史 = The cultural history of Gojira 1954 byCall Number: PN1995.9.G63 O66 2014Publication Date: 2014
- ゴジラと特撮美術の世界展 : ゴジラ生誕 60周年記念 = The art of GodzillaCall Number: folio PN1995.9.G63 G65 2015Publication Date: 2015
- さらば愛しきゴジラよ = Godzilla: the final strategy analysis & proposal byCall Number: PN1995.9.G63 S28 1993Publication Date: 1993
- 新ゴジラ論 : 初代ゴジラから「シン・ゴジラ」へ = New essay on Gojira : Godzilla to Godzilla, resurgence byCall Number: PN1995.9.G63 O67 2017Publication Date: 2017
Books on Godzilla: Japanese 2
This box lists books on Godzilla but designed for fans. Includes many photos and art works.
- ゴジラファイナルウォーズ = Godzilla final wars : 東宝SF特撮映画シリーズ special editionCall Number: PN1997 .G5683625 2005Publication Date: 2005
- 「ゴジラ」 (『原水爆漫画コレクション vol. 4 残光』) byCall Number: PN6790.J32 G467 2015 vol. 4Publication Date: 2015A short comic of Godzilla, created by a comic artist Sugiura Shigeru, in 1955.
東宝特撮怪獣映画大全集 = Godzilla movie chronicle : 1954-2004 by Call Number: PN1995.9.G63Publication Date: 2005Sample text is taken from page 6.- ゴジラ・コレクションCall Number: Brief35-09893Publication Date: 1984Collection of the reproductions of newsletters, flyers, and posters on Godzilla. Non-circulation item. Please contact the Japanese Studies Librarian to view the collection.
Books by Godzilla Staff
This box lists books written by or about those Godzilla staff and cast (or their family members).
- ゴジラは円谷英二である : 航空教育資料製作所秘史 = Godzilla is Eiji Tsuburaya byCall Number: PN1993.5.J3 S238 2016Publication Date: 2016