From Nagasaki to 9/11: War, Politics and the New American Kaiju Boom (Reupload)

Improved reupload of my first video essay. This was my capstone project for my degree in Media and Cinema Studies from the College of Communications at DePaul University.

In 1967, the kaiju boom peaked when all five of Japan's major studios released at least one monster movie. In 2017, fifty years later, three films inspired by the Japanese kaiju genre hit American theaters within a month of each other, part of a revival that's been gaining momentum throughout the 2010s. Why is this happening, and why now?

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I. Introduction - 0:00:32
II. World War II and the Occupation - 0:02:50
III. The Original Godzilla - 0:04:38
IV. Japan's Kaiju Boom - 0:15:03
V. Kaiju in America - 0:24:55
VI. Kaiju in Korea - 0:29:55
VII. The American Kaiju Boom: 2008-2018 - 0:33:17
-- Cloverfield (2008) - 0:34:36
-- Pacific Rim (2013) - 0:40:13
-- Godzilla (2014) - 0:41:43
-- Colossal (2016) - 0:43:44
-- Kong: Skull Island (2017) - 0:45:53
-- Power Rangers (2017) - 0:48:07
-- Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) - 0:50:21
-- Rampage (2018) - 0:53:27
VIII. Conclusion - 0:55:46
Clips/Music/Works Cited & Special Thanks - 0:58:22

This is a critical/educational work and constitutes fair use of copyrighted material under US law.