"From Cryptids to Kaijū: Exploring Heterodox Palaeoscience with Godzilla"
Cryptozoology is usually discussed as a western phenomenon. Folklore and the Godzilla films suggest otherwise. My article in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews' Heterodox Paleoscience Special Issue.
My article “From Cryptids to Kaijū: Exploring Heterodox Palaeoscience with Godzilla” appeared in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Vol. 49, no. 3–4 (2024) and looks at the role cryptozoology has played in Japanese history and culture via the lens of both folklore and key films in the Godzilla series, the later interpreted as a popular example of Japanese cryptofiction.
This will work to reframe the discussion around cryptozoology as one not premised exclusively on western cultural assumptions about the relationship between science, modernity, and myth while also demonstrating that the circumstances which have resulted in the paleontologically heterodox claims of cryptozoologists are not unique to western culture.
How to cite this entry
Justin Mullis. “"From Cryptids to Kaijū: Exploring Heterodox Palaeoscience with Godzilla".” Justin Mullis (blog), March 21, 2024. https://profjustinmullis.com/archive/from-cryptids-to-kaiju/.