In Tracking King Kong Cynthia Erb charts the cultural significance of the character of King Kong, from the early 1930s, when Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's classic film King Kong was first released, to Peter Jackson's 2005 remake. Although King Kong has received...
Drawing upon recent reception and cultural theories as well as production and archival documents, Tracking King Kong examines the King Kong figure in a range of cultural contexts and institutional settings. The successes of Jurassic Park and The Lost World have refocused attention...