Surf movies fall into three different genres:
- the surfing documentary - targeting surfing fans
- the 1960 beach party movie - targeting a wider community and
- feature fiction movies with a focus on surfing reality
Video Surf film
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This sports documentary was pioneered by Bud Browne (eg "Hawaiian Holiday") in the 1940s and early 1950s, and was later popularized by Bruce Brown (eg Endless Summer) in the late 1950s and the early 1960s, and then refined by Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman (eg Five Summer Stories) in the 1970s and beyond (MacGillivray and Freeman then went on to film IMAX movies like To Fly ! and Speed ​​). The genre itself has been determined by the surfers, traveling with their friends and documenting the experience in the movie. In Bruce Brown's 'heyday', Greg Noll, Bud Brown, John Severson, the films are projected for noisy fans in music halls, civic centers and high school auditoriums.
During the 1980s, the market for surfing movies soared with the release of more affordable video cameras. In the 1990s, surf markets became saturated with low- and middle-budget surf movies, many with sound tracks reflecting the culture of the music of the mass media. VHS and finally DVDs make the experience of watching a surfing movie, a "home" and "glory" affair joining your friends or inviting a girl to "watch a movie night" at a local high school soon disappear. Furthermore, major surf brands are beginning to make surfing movies under their marketing budgets to promote clothing and product sales. Titles like Sonny Miller, "The Search" for Rip Curl redefined the genre with exotic locality, big budget and name of the surfer, like Tom Curren.
In the late 1990s up to now, there has been a resurgence of "independent surfing movies". Artists such as The Malloys, Jack Johnson and Jason Baffa have reinvented the genre by photographing a self-financed 16mm film film and utilizing indie bands like G. Love, Alexi Murdoch, Mojave 3, White Buffalo, and Donavon Frankenreiter, creating what is surfing media calling it, "modern classics." Supported by a grass screening tour, inspired by surfers' ancestors, sparked excitement and now fathers can once again see the latest movie on the big screen. Examples of surfing documentaries include:
Maps Surf film
Beach Party Movies
The second type of surfing film is a campy entertainment feature, also termed a "beach party movie" or "surfingploitation film" by true surfers, has little to do with authentic sports and surfing culture and represents films that seek to monetize the growing popularity of surfing among youths in the early 1960s, an. Examples of Beach Party movies include:
- Gidget (1959)
- Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)
- Beach Party (1963)
- Ride the Wild Surf (1964)
- Surf Party (1964)
- Blanket Bingo Beach (1965)
- Malibu Beach (1978)
- The Beach Girls (1982)
- Spring Break (1983)
- Hardbodies (1984)
- Teen Beach Movie (2013)
Narrative Surf Films
Surfing is sometimes depicted more clearly in a fictitious storyline, or using surf as background, or side themes.
- Big Wednesday
- Blue Crush
- In God's Hand
- Lords Of Dogtown
- North Coast
- Point Break
- Blues Puberty
- Soul Surfer
- Surf II
- Surf's Up
- Surf's Up 2: WaveMania
- Blue Crush 2
- Blue Juice
- Drift (movie)
- Pursuing Mavericks (2012)
See also
- Skiing
References
Thoms, Albie (2000) Surfmovies: History of Surf Movies in Australia ISBNÃ, 0958742030
Lisanti, Tom (2005) Hollywood Surf And Beach Movie: The First Wave, 1959-1969 ISBN: 0786421045
Warshaw, Matt (2005) Surf Movie Tonite!: Surf Movie Poster Art, 1957-2004 San Francisco: Chronicle Book ISBN: 9780811848732
Williams, Randy (2006) Movie Theaters 100 Movies: The Best of Heroes of Athletics, Losers, Myths, and Hollywood Misfits Limelight Level Edition ISBNÃ, 9780879103316 pg 134-136
Chidester, Brian; Priore, Domenic; Zuckerman, Kathy (2008) Pop Surfing Culture: Music, Design, Film, and Fashion from Bohemian surfing boom Santa Monica Press ISBNÃ, 9781595800350 Chapter 7
Ormrod & amp; Wheaton (2009) At the edges: recreation, consumption and representation of adventure sports Leisure Studies Association Edition 104: 17-25
External links
- Surf Movies
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