An article appeared at The Dallas Morning News online website on a college professor who has a "monstrous obsession with Godzilla":
Along his torn-up trail, the menacing brute also has created some major Godzilla geeks. One of them is Dr. William Tsutsui, the recently appointed dean of SMU's Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, whose obsession with Godzilla goes beyond campy special effects.
As he was growing up, his childhood fascination gave way to scholarly interpretation – and Tsutsui came to see the globally recognized monster as cultural ambassador, the therapeutic creation of a postwar Japan.
"I realized there was something more there than just a guy in a rubber suit," said Tsutsui, 47.
Tsutsui wrote the book, Godzilla On My Mind several years ago and appeared last summer at G-FEST.
To read the full article, go here.
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