Film Course - They Come from Planet Earth: The Kaiju Genre At Large

Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 at 02:00 pm UTC+01:00

Broadway Cinema | Nottingham

Broadway Cinema
Publisher/HostBroadway Cinema
Film Course - They Come from Planet Earth: The Kaiju Genre At Large
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Throughout a century of cinematic change and spectacle, audiences and creatives have continually returned to exploit the evocative imagery of beastly battling. Once more, giant monsters are popular. But, is the genre just an excuse to pit mighty beasts against one another in striking (and sometimes silly) displays of spectacle? Or, despite its fantastical nature, does the kaiju genre have a deeper message to impart about the world we live in?
This one-off course intends to answer that very question, tracing the deep, global history of kaiju eiga, exploring its many, fantastical films (and some of the farcical ones) so that we might decipher their political, environmental and social meanings, ultimately striving to offer a new way of looking at not only the different intentions of its creators, but at the kaiju genre at large.
Tutor: Nathan Lunn
Duration: 1 x 3 hour session
When: Sat 13 September, 2pm – 5.15pm (includes 15-min break)
Price: £15 / £12 members & concessions / £10 under 25s
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