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Re-telling freedom in Otelo Burning: the beach, surf noir, and Bildung at the Lamontville pool
The feature film Otelo Burning (
2011
) tells the story of black youth 'tasting freedom' by surfing waves in late apartheid South Africa and reflects on the emergence of a new national order by drawing Nelson Mandela's release from prison into its plot. This article situates the film in a genealogy of black-centred representations of Durban beach - including Peter Abrahams's memoir Tell Freedom (1954), Drum photographer Bob Gosani's framing of Dolly Rathebe at a Durban beach (1957), Lewis Nkosi's Mating Birds (1983) and the post-apartheid film Jerusalema (
2008
) - and in relation to international surfing fiction and film - particularly Kum Nunn's novel trilogy and the films Point Break (
1991
) and Blue Crush (
2002
). It focuses on the settings of beach and sea, township and pool and teases out the generic scripts that compose the film. A tension between the attraction of the outlaw figure that informs 'surf noir' and the production of the Bildungsheld as normative, 'responsibilitized' citizen-subject is found to animate this story of surfing and to direct the questions about freedom that it poses from the vantage point of a democracy itself now coming of age.
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Beach bully
Isaac and his parents have just moved into a house by the ocean, and he is willing to try surfboarding, but there is a bully among the local boys on the beach who seems determined to drive him away.
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Shark attack! : a survive! story
Ever since he arrived at his family's rented summer house, Brandan has been hearing horror stories from all of the locals about sharks in the water. His new friend and surfing partner, Alex, swears the stories aren't true, but Brendan can't shake his fear. Then, one day, when Alex and Brendan are surfing off the coast, Brendan's shark nightmare comes true in a horrible way.
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Inspire and Expire: On Tim Winton's Breath
Liu talks about Tim Winton's novel \"Breath.\" In all his fiction, the sense of place is important. In Breath, the ocean takes on a comparable role as an immense elemental force that simultaneously compels and controls the protagonists. The description of place is handled with great care and with the artist's perceptiveness. The description of place is sounds of nature, thus adding another dimension to the story. In Breath, Winton confirms his status as a consummate wordsmith who can take the people's breath away with the pungency of his portraits of the landscape. He draws his prime inspiration from landscape and place, mostly coastal Western Australia, where the water (ocean or river) is important to the landscape and the psyche of the people.
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Surf's up!
Clarence joins his neighbor, Mr. Dent, and his cat Throttle for a day of surfing at the beach, but when Throttle gets into trouble and cannot swim, it's up to Clarence to save the day.
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\More blokes, more bloody water!\: Tim Winton's \Breath\
Ben-Messahel talks about Tim Winton's short story, \"Blood and Water,\" from the celebrated collection Minimum of Two (1987), and the his most recently published novel and winner of the Miles Franklin Award--Breath. The novel encapsulates some of Winton's major concerns: adolescence and manhood, place and the environment, life in Western Australia, identity, culture and politics. The writing and publication of Breath is also set a few years after Winton made public appearances to oppose the Ningaloo Reef resort development in Western Australia.
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