Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Valkyrist.wordpress.com — This is a video essay looking at how Stanley Kramer's 1959 drama ON THE BEACH depicts Melbourne as an unexceptional and geographically marginal city, teetering on the edge of external destruction.

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