Capitalism, masculinity and whiteness in the dialectical landscape: The case of Tarzan and the Tycoon |
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| Authors: | Deborah Dixon John Grimes |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of Geography and Earth Science, University of Wales-Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, Wales, SY23 3DB, U.K.;(2) Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70808-3658, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | The intent of this paper is to explore how ‘reel’ and ‘real’ landscapes can be rendered dialectic. The analysis focuses on
the filming of Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) at the wildlife preserve of Wakulla Springs in Florida, which was administered
by the financial tycoon Ed Ball. Using Mitchell's recent commentaries on ‘good’ and ‘bad’ dialectics as our entry point, we
offer two readings of this cinematic process. The first renders the on and off screen Wakulla Springs as ideological fodder,
serving to valorise capital, masculinity and whiteness. The second reading addresses how this place has been actively constructed
from discourses pertaining to class, gender and race, such that Wakulla exists as a series of fully relational spaces within
diverse contexts, both ‘real’ and ‘reel’. In structuring our analysis in this manner, we hope to make clear why it does indeed
matter for film geographers to acknowledge the conceptual presumptions brought to bear in the framing of the real and the
reel as objects of analysis.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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| Keywords: | capitalism dialectical landscapes film geography masculinity whiteness |
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