TY - JOUR
AU - Laderman, Scott
AB - scot t l aderman Wanderlust: Surfing, Modernization, and Cultural Diplomacy in the Long 1970s* By mid-1967, when the State Department appointed Hollywood powerbroker Jack Valenti chairman of the U.S. delegation to the biennial Moscow Film Festival, The Endless Summer (1966), a celebrated chronicle of two surfers traveling around the world in search of waves, had already earned countless accolades. Newsweek pronounced it a “sweeping and exciting account of human skill pitted against the ocean itself.” To Life it was the “nicest surprise to happen in the low-budget movie business in a long time.” The New Yorker reckoned it a “brilliant documentary,” a “perfect movie about a search for the perfect wave.” Members of the National Screen Council, which in January 1967 awarded the film its Boxoffice Blue Ribbon Award—“unusual for a documentary,” the group noted—were ecstatic. “You could be 85 and never have put a toe in the water and still think this is great,” chimed one. “Who would have thought I would sit enthralled for 91 minutes by a documentary about surfing!” said another. The film’s director (and producer, cinematographer, editor, and narrator), the blond-haired Southern California archetype Bruce Brown, came in for extraordinary praise. Time magazine chris- 
TI - Wanderlust: Surfing, Modernization, and Cultural Diplomacy in the Long 1970s *
JF - Diplomatic History
DO - 10.1093/dh/dhw030
DA - 2016-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/wanderlust-surfing-modernization-and-cultural-diplomacy-in-the-long-nxZPVbeycf
SP - 865
EP - 884
VL - 40
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -