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Moving Images from the Gold Coast.
Stephen Stockwell, Journalism and Communication, Griffith University
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The Gold Coast is an imagined city created, to a large degree, by a multiplicity of moving image productions produced by visitors. From pseudo-Hollywood blockbusters to the miles of amateur footage shot by tourists, the Gold Coast is imagined in the minds of others. Analysis of a variety of moving image artifacts reveals how the rest of the world understands the Gold Coast and finds that the image eerily reflects the reality: not far behind glitz and glamour of the beach-based boosterism is the desperation of crime and corruption. It is suggested that the Gold
Coast can only come of age by producing its own image of itself, and only if that image rests on an honest account of how it came to be where it is today.
