The Cineposium Podcast

Episode six of our show is curated by #Cineposium member Liwen Wang, as she presents #MichaelShowalter’s #TheBigSick. 

If you have questions for Liwen related to the film, and/or her presentation, please send us your questions via our social media platforms, or email us at [email protected], and they will be answered in our next episode.

Cineposium member Michael Mazzacane examines Ishiro Honda's Godzilla, and Shin Godzilla, co-directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi.

For further insight:

Books

Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa

Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men: The Fantastic Cinema of Ishiro Honda

A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series

JSTOR

“(STILL) COOL JAPAN.” Re-Imagining Japan after Fukushima, by TAMAKI MIHIC, ANU Press, Australia, 2020, pp. 87–116. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv103xdt4.10. Accessed 28 Apr. 2020.

Napier, Susan J. “Panic Sites: The Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira.” Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, 1993, pp. 327–351. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/132643. Accessed 28 Apr. 2020.

CHO, YU-FANG. “REMEMBERING GOJIRA/GODZILLA: Nuclearism and Racial Reproduction in America’s Asia-Pacific.” Racial Ecologies, edited by Leilani Nishime and Kim D. Hester Williams, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2018, pp. 220–233. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvcwnm95.19. Accessed 28 Apr. 2020.

“Horror after Hiroshima.” Introduction to Japanese Horror Film, by Colette Balmain, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2008, pp. 30–49. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g09x15.9. Accessed 28 Apr. 2020.

DANTER, STEFAN. “Destructive Villain or Gigantic Hero?: The Transformation of Godzilla in Contemporary Popular Culture.” The Supervillain Reader, edited by Robert Moses Peaslee and Robert G. Weiner, by Stephen Graham Jones and Randy Duncan, University Press of Mississippi, JACKSON, 2020, pp. 190–202. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvx5w9cj.23. Accessed 28 Apr. 2020.

The program for episode four of our show is presented by Cineposium member Ben Li, and focuses on Alex Garland's Ex Machina.

If you have questions for Ben related to the film, and/or his program, please send us your questions via our social media platforms, or email us at [email protected], and they will be answered in our next episode.

The program for episode three of our show is presented by co-host Martin Ibarra-Ramos, and focuses on two films directed by Kaneto Shindo, Onibaba, and Kuroneko. The program is partially a presentation of these two films, and of the horror sub-genre, folk horror cinema.

If you have questions for Martin related to the films, and/or his program, please send us your questions via our social media platforms, or email us at [email protected], and they will be answered in our next episode.

In this first episode of our show we introduce Cineposium, a graduate student organization from UCLA, and we announce our plans for combining podcasting with remote film-programming. Tune in to learn about what we'll be offering, as well as how to keep up with our announcements and film-programming. 

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