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# Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon in World Culture (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)

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        			How wonderful to have Cynthia Erb's Tracking King Kong updated. Added to the first edition's remarkable insights and methodological syntheses is a definitive reading of Peter Jackson's remake. Demonstrating that film's intricacy and arguing that it is a quintessential example of melancholic cinema, Erb expertly tracks the cultural fate of Kong into the present and beyond. An extraordinary contribution to film studies."--James Morrison "author of Roman Polanski " Tracking King Kong: Second Edition expands upon Erb's earlier book by exploring the persistence of the giant ape as a cultural icon in the popular imagination, seen especially in the recent cinematic remakes. Her nuanced and original analysis of the 1933 production and its reception across time in view of race, gender, queer, and postcolonialist issues make this a must-read for cinema scholars and enthusiasts alike."--Merrill Schleier "author of Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in American Film " One of the best books written about a horror film and one of the best contributions to film reception studies. I don't know of a book that brings these two areas together more richly than Tracking King Kong. Erb combines dazzling historical research with a clear and engaging prose style to make her book refreshing for the academic reader and a pleasure for every sort of reader. The most ardent lover of the original King Kong will learn new things about the film's enduring impact and its myriad cultural manifestations.--Robert Spadoni "author of Uncanny Bodies: The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre " A work of insight, scholarship, and substance, 'Tracking King Kong' is informed, informative, and a highly recommended, core addition to academic library Film Studies history and reference collections."--The Midwest Book Review
				    	
					
        		
        		
        	
        
        	
        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        			Cynthia Erb is associate professor of film and English at Wayne State University.

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