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On the Beach: This is the Way the World Ends.
Constantine Verevis, Monash University
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Con.Verevis@arts.monash.edu.au
The paper considers the relationship between: Nevil Shute’s 1957 novel On the Beach; the feature film, On the Beach (Stanley Kramer, 1959); and the television mini-series, On the Beach (Russell Mulcahy, 2000). In particular, this paper is interested in the talk surrounding the location filming and lead-up to the local (i.e., Melbourne) reception of the 1959 feature, and the ‘‘remaking’’ of these discourses around the production of the recent television mini-series. Among the issues discussed is the much-reported, sharp witticism (falsely) attributed to Hollywood actor Ava Gardner (who played Moira Davidson in the 1959 feature) that Melbourne was the best place to make a movie about the end of the world.
