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46 Popular Culture Review stretched beyond simply the viewing of the films and have become a much broader project of equality and acceptance which seems completely divorced from the text itself. In other words, the reading formations of American Godzilla fans have nei ther a fixed text nor a fixed interpretation, and it is impossible to draw any safe conclusions about what Godzilla represents to them. Perhaps this extreme muta bility is also the secret of Godzilla’s enduring popularity and the reason for its easy naturalization in American culture. While these films have never set box office records, Godzilla continues to have a remarkably long and successful career as a mythical symbol of infinite adaptation, transformation, and interpretation. University of Iowa Anthony Enns Works Cited Buxton, David. From The Avengers to Miami Vice: Form and Ideology>in Television Series. Manchester