Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon in World Culture

by Cynthia Erb

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 much academic attention over the past twenty-five years, the bulk of these analyses deal with the film's human characters rather than Kong himself. In this revised edition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081433430X
• ISBN13: 9780814334300
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"