Writing the Australian Beach: Local Site, Global Idea

Acknowledgements.- Preface.- Chapter 1 Writing the Australian beach: Texts, sites, events and people.- SECTION: Forms of beach writing.- Chapter 2 Surfers and lifeguards: A short history of beach writing in Australia.- Chapter 3 Screenwriting the beach: Conflict, catharsis and the character arc in Australian film.- Chapter 4 Instafamous: Social media influencers and Australian beaches.- Chapter 5 Food writing and the Australian beach: From leisure to labour.- SECTION: Multiplicities of Australian beach writing.- Chapter 6.- Exploring Australian coastal Gothic: Poetry and place.- Chapter 7 Writing Noosa's beach: Travellers' narratives and modernity.- Chapter 8 Beaches in Australian horror films: Sites of fear and retreat.- Chapter 9 Challenging conceptions of beach as paradise in fiction and memoir: The Gold Coast's bathing beauties.- SECTION: Reading the beach as text.- Chapter 10 Walking the Australian beach: Mapping footprints in the sand.- Chapter 11 Australian beach soccer: Tracing paradoxical narratives.- Chapter 12 Australia's ocean baths: Stories of design, aesthetics and swimming.- Chapter 13 Sculpture by the Sea: A visual essay.- Index.