Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34828
- Title
- We shall fight on the seas and the oceans...we shall: commodification, localism and violence
- Author/Creator
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Scott, Paul
- Institution
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Science & Information Technology, School of Design, Communication and Information Technology
- Description
- Nick Breuchie’s letter to Tracks reflects an individual’s fight against the popularity of surfing, a popularity that he sees manifested in crowded surf line-ups boosted by the images and rhetoric found in surfing magazines. Beyond surfing magazines, surfing is currently enjoying an ultra-hip status in the world of popular culture: Hollywood has recently reinvigorated the surf movie genre that started with Gidget through putting “chicks on sticks in flicks” in the surfploitation film Blue Crush; surfing scenes open the most recent James Bond film, Die Another Day. Surf fashion is seemingly ubiquitous among youth and their baby boomer parents, and the global surf industry is worth “at least $US7.4bn,” most of which is generated through sales of apparel (Gliddon 20). No longer is surfing for youth; now it is about youth.
- Relation
- M/C Journal Vol. 6, Issue 1
- Relation
- http://journal.media-culture.org.au/journal/past_vol_6.php
- Date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Queensland, Media and Cultural Studies Centre
- Keyword(s)
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surfing;
popular culture;
subcultures
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34828
- Identifier
- ISSN:1441-2616
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