Photographs and audio are now available from the March 26, 2015 event “Constructing Godzilla in Mid-Twentieth Century Japan and America.” The event featured a lecture by Yoshiko Ikeda, Associate Professor, College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University and Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, and was moderated by Gregory Pflugfelder, Associate Professor of … [Read more...]
Columbia’s Gregory Pflugfelder on Godzilla’s Global History
Advertisements for the new "Godzilla" are ubiquitous this summer. Weatherhead East Asian Institute faculty member Gregory Pflugfelder is well acquainted with such images. Pflugfelder, a professor of Japanese history at Columbia University, has collected around five thousand posters and promotional materials for Godzilla films and other Japanese monster flicks. His archive of … [Read more...]
