Fishing the waters of life: Zane Grey’s White Death, exploitation film and the Great Barrier Reef

IF 0.4 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION Studies in Australasian Cinema Pub Date : 2017-01-02 DOI:10.1080/17503175.2017.1308906
L. Speed
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ABSTRACT Edwin G. Bowen’s White Death (1936) is an Australian–American film about shark fishing that stars the American novelist and fisherman Zane Grey as himself. Set mainly at the Great Barrier Reef, it has a semi-fictional plot about Grey’s quest to kill a shark in the face of opposition from an anti-fishing activist, Newton Smith (Alfred Frith). Although White Death was financially unsuccessful and has received little attention in histories of Australian film or Grey’s life, it is significant in several ways. The film is unusual among early Australian productions for combining elements of the genres of travelogue documentary, fictional adventure film and exotic exploitation film. It reflects an American perspective of Australia as an exotic location. White Death is also linked to the interwar development of tourism at the Great Barrier Reef and foreshadows the growth of the environmental conservation movement.
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在生命的水域捕鱼:赞恩·格雷的《白色死亡》,剥削电影和大堡礁
摘要:埃德温·G·鲍恩的《白死病》(1936)是一部澳大利亚-美国关于鲨鱼捕捞的电影,由美国小说家兼渔夫赞恩·格雷饰演。故事主要发生在大堡礁,有一个半虚构的情节,讲述格雷在反捕鱼活动家纽顿·史密斯(阿尔弗雷德·弗里斯饰)的反对下试图杀死一条鲨鱼的故事。尽管《白死》在经济上并不成功,在澳大利亚电影史或格雷的生活史上也很少受到关注,但它在几个方面都很重要。这部电影融合了游记纪录片、虚构冒险电影和异国剥削电影的元素,在澳大利亚早期制作中是不寻常的。它反映了美国人对澳大利亚异国情调的看法。白死病也与大堡礁两次世界大战之间旅游业的发展有关,并预示着环境保护运动的发展。
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Studies in Australasian Cinema FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-
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