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Content warning: Contains discussion regarding generational trauma, real life disasters, grief, and gender inequality.

On this episode of The Beauty of Horror, Chandler talks with horror writer, researcher, and speaker, Dani Bethea about the tragic beauty of Ishirō Honda’s GOJIRA (1954).

They explore the horrors of war, the importance of humanizing victims of large-scale tragedies, Nature vs Humanity, and, of course, aesthetics!

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Chandler - @_Shockaholic

Beauty of Horror - @BeautyHorrorPod

Dani- @TheDaniBethea

cineSPEAK - @cineSPEAK

Mentions:

Dani’s Medium page

“Gojira: A Monster of Human Design” by Dani Bethea

Pharoahe Monch - “Simon Says”

Daliborka Films  - Day of the Western Sunrise (2020)

Quote from On Beauty and Ugliness in Art (1976) by Ronald E. Roblin

Music by Karl Casey (White Bat Audio)

Cover Art designed by John Green (JRGDrawing)

Edited by Aviva Dassen

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