...Godzilla Analyzed The films of “Gojira” or as the people of the United States recognize them as, Godzilla; contain a similar plot line of a menacing dinosaur, disrupting the way of life for the people of Japan. These films usually hold a significant message, protesting controversial topics relative to the year it has been filmed in. The following Godzilla film’s, “Godzilla Vs. Megagurius (1998)”, “Gojira (1954)”, and “Godzilla 1985 (1984)” vividly contrast the errors mankind has bestowed upon earth. Pollution and Nuclear technology are the two main factors that connect each of these films together. Godzilla first appeared in the 1954 world release of “Gojira”, which featured Japanese and American, actors and producers for the first time. The film tells a tale of how a dinosaur that slept at the bottom of the sea, angrily awoke, and rose from the nuclear ashes of bombs made by mankind. “Gojira” was angry at man for awakening him from his slumber and polluting his home with modern technological advances and weaponry. In this film (1954), “Gojira” punishes man for his crimes against nature, by destroying all of Tokyo and the land around it. Many people perish during Gojira’s reign of terror. It was very clever of the Japanese to create an unstoppable being that terrorized humans for their mistreatment of each other and the planet that they shared. Many people would reform to change immediately, once they realized that their way of life was on the brink of destruction. The people...
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...In June 1968,on a small island in the Pacific there was a fiery explosion happenedin a thick jungle that occur to a six-foot-long reptile that was very dangerous creature. Twenty Years later, The Kobayashi Maru (Japanese Ship),a fish boat factory in South Pacific Ocean workers are sorting the last fish that they catch and the captain saw a mysterious creature in their radar that headed towards the boat. He hit the alarm but the gigantic monster destroy the boat.In Papeete Hospital there was a Tahitian native who was the only survivor of the attack on Japanese ship, then he told him that they attack by a “Gojira”.Scientist Niko “Nick” Tatopoulos, an earthworm collector in Chernobyl. When a big chopper appears anda man from U.S State Department told him...
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...Hegemony, Cultural Hegemony, and The Americanization of Imported Media Kerry Manderbach University of Missouri @ St. Louis COMM 6700 Dr. Alice Hall April 10th, 2012 Abstract Media product from the United States has found its way across the four corners of the Earth beginning early in the last century. Films, television programs, music, and printed materials depicting and reinforcing the American way of life have been the predominant form of mass communication and have in turn influenced people from around the world in political, religious and cultural matters. When this effect becomes pronounced due to American media product dominating the local mass communications industry of another nation, it is called cultural hegemony. However, the same effect is not felt in the importation of international media into the U.S. market. Here, most foreign cultural and political meanings are replaced with “Americanized” thought through audio soundtrack dubbing and other methods. This is most often done for commercial purposes rather than any nefarious plot to keep Americans from learning about other cultures. But the effect ends up the same. Here I present some examples from the past and present… Hegemony is defined in our classroom handouts as, “…a means of convincing the audience to accept the existing power structure” (Hall 2012). Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist, developed the modern concepts of hegemony and its variant, cultural hegemony. Jim Glassman (2012) said, “Gramsci’s...
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...Slayer :: Rock 'n India :: October 20th :: Bangalore 12. Santana :: October :: (yet to confirm) 13. Matěj Benko Quintet(Czech Republic), Frederick Koster Quartet (Germany), Marcin Wasilewski Trio (Poland), Lucas Roos (Switzerland) and Froy Aagre Quartet (Norway) :: Jazz Utsav '12 :: October 26,27,28 :: Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Kolkata, Delhi 14. Sean Paul :: November 2,3,4 :: Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore 15. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Karnivool, Michal Menert, Driving Lolita :: NH7 Weekender :: November 2,3,4 :: Pune 16. Above and Beyond :: November 10th :: Mumbai 17. Swedish House Mafia :: November 17,18 :: Mumbai, Delhi 18. Wolf :: Harley Rock Riders :: November 24 :: Bangalore 19. Hardwell :: December 7,9 :: New Delhi, Mumbai 20. Gojira, Cerebral bore, InnerGuilt, Flayed Disciple, Bloodshot Dawn, Xerath :: Indian Metal Fest :: December 15th :: Bangalore 21. Periphery, Fink, Foreign Beggars and Bauchklang :: NH7...
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...It is now known that there were no true witches during this time period, but due to tensions caused by a recent small pox epidemic at the time, religious and civil strains on the colonial society, as well as fear of outsiders, suspicious village members allowed fear to run rampant, the true causes of the Salem Massacre ("Salem Witch Trials"). Comparable to the monster in Frankenstein, who was also fashioned out of society’s ugliest pieces, the Salem witches were nothing without their creators. The witches turned upon one another, confessed to what they were not and died as a more horrid version of themselves, while their creators remained blameless and hid behind the shield of fear. Like the monster in Frankenstein and the Salem Witches, Gojira or Godzilla (as it’s known in the West) is another monster that would have no purpose without the monster that created it. In contrast to the monster in Frankenstein and the Salem witches, who were established by the monster(s) that surrounded them, Godzilla is the by product and symbol of a creator from another part of the world. Awakened by the radiation caused by the earliest atomic bomb, Godzilla first became a literary monster in Japan. In 1945, consequently caused by the rising tensions between Japan and the United States, President Harry S. Truman decided to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese cities’ of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the fear that nothing else could be done (Martin). John Rocco Robert claims that the after effects of...
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