| chapter - A century of Australian cinema : Developing pictures: Australian cinema (1970-1995) . 00-00-1995. pp.172-197 |
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Peter Kemp
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| This chapter is one in a series documenting the history of cinema in Australia. The book is beautifully presented and contains a large array of still photogr...[full record]
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| chapter - An Australian Film Reader : Part Three: Renaissance of the Feature . 00-00-1985. pp.139-143 |
| A summary of the readings within this section by Moran and O'Regan.
A key move of establishing a low-budget, experimental cinema to function as a kind of ...[full record]
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| book - Aussiewood: Australia's Leading Actors and Directors Tell How They Conquered Hollywood . 00-00-2004 |
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Michaela Boland,
Michael Bodey
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| A chapter is devoted to each subject, detailing their early career in Australia and subsequent transition to 'Hollywood' and the subjects' perspective on the...[full record]
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| chapter - Australian Film: 1978-1992 : Puberty Blues . 00-00-1993. p.81 |
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Anna Gull
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| To begin her discussion of the film, Gul explores the cultural appropriations of the film in it's contemporary context and today; she notes a shift from humo...[full record]
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| chapter - Australian Movies and the American Dream : Lost In America 1984 - 1986 . 00-00-1987. pp.143-1500 |
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Glen Lewis
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| In this chapter, Lewis discusses the state of the Australian Box Office which he notes, is dominated by American comedy, teenage and sci-fi films.
He spend...[full record]
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| web - Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture vol.1 no.1 : "Chauvel and the centring of the Aboriginal male in Australian film" . 00-00-1987 |
| Bruce Beresford
Kristina Nehm
Charles Chauvel
Fred Schepisi
Robert Tudawali
Andrew Pike
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| newspaper - Cringe No More The Age. 08-10-1994 |
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Janet Hawley
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| Article looks at the death of the cultural cringe, the flourishing Aboriginal culture, gay culture crossing into mainstream culture.
Australia has reached ...[full record]
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| newspaper - Ebb tide for surfie culture The Daily Telegraph. 11-12-1981. p.43 |
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Wayne Webster
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| Calls 'Puberty Blues' a fresh, honest look at the triumphs and pitfalls of growing up in the eighties and it may not be a masterpieces of cinema entertainmen...[full record]
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| newspaper - Living in the past maybe - but doing it well. The Sydney Morning Herald. 20-08-1977 |
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Geraldine Pascall
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| Begins by discussing three Australian movies which are period pieces set in schools about young people growing up.
It goes on to breifly discuss the Austral...[full record]
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| journal - Muddying the Mythological waters: Aboriginality in Australian Film Metro. pp.18-21 |
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Karen Jennings
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| journal - No title Cinema Papers 82. 00-03-1991. p.71 |
| Useless Article if one already has any reasonable listing of cast & Crew.
Points of interest:
Budget $11 Million (au)
Production: 17/9/90-1/12/90
Post-...[full record]
Director
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| journal - No title Cinema Papers 83. 00-05-1991. p.30 |
| List of major cast and crew's names and a brief sentence describing the film's premise. Finally an interesting quote by Bruce Beresford regarding his opinion...[full record]
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| journal - No title V122. 18-07-1983. p.63 |
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Author Unknown
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| journal - No title Cinema Papers 83. 00-05-1991. p.74 |
| Useless Article if one already has any reasonable listing of cast & Crew.
Points of interest:
Budget $11 Million (au)
Production: 17/9/90-1/12/90
Post-...[full record]
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| journal - No title Films 11 V2. 00-10-1982. p.34 |
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Author Unknown
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| journal - No title Hollywood Reporter. 19-03-1982 |
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Author Unknown
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| journal - No title Screen International 357. 21-08-1982. p.14 |
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Author Unknown
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| newspaper - Not nice, but a realistic view Canberra Times. 02-02-1982. p.n.p. |
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Author Unknown
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| After introducing the authors of the book the film was based around, this review goes on to discuss the films incorporation of ethnographical concerns (obser...[full record]
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| journal - Peter Weir Positif 314. . pp.18-22 |
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Christian Viviani
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| Survey of Weir's films.[full record]
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| newspaper - Puberty Blues Times. 18-07-1983. p.55 |
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Author Unknown
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| Discusses Director, Breresford's realist appraoch to his subject matter. The reviewer found the film to be 'mild' and subsequently 'weak' in dramatic intens...[full record]
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| book - Puberty Blues: Australian feature films in the classroom . 00-00-1981 |
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Barbara Boyd-Anderson
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| Discusses themes such as sexuality, drug use, peer group pressure etc as well as an interview with one of the stars as well as a list of short films related ...[full record]
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| newspaper - Puberty Blues: coming of age near the water. Los Angeles Times. 10-07-1983. pp.6-7 |
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Sheila Benson
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| Quite complimentary about the film and feels that Beresford's art is in letting us see the problem from all sides.
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| newspaper - Puberty Blues: it's so sad being young Daily News (California). 10-08-1983. p.4 |
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Kirk Honeycutt
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| Argues that Beresford handles the theme of social conformity better in 'The Getting of Wisdom'. Thinks Beresford's greatest strength is his ability to bring...[full record]
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| newspaper - Puberty Blues: trite and boring South Bay Daily Breeze, South Bay Daily Breeze (USA). 12-08-1983. p.25 |
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Don Lechman
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| He feels that it is 'dumb and irritating, the characters are unlikeable, the story is trite and boring and the thought and language are strictly 1950's rathe...[full record]
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| newspaper - Realistic teenage film from Australia Long Beach Press Telegraph (USA). 12-08-1983. p.29 |
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Robin Deemer
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| Makes a comparison between the teenagers in this film and those in America, and argues that it is one of the few films to take a serious look at the trials o...[full record]
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| newspaper - Reality fades to black The Sunday Age. 01-12-1996. p.8 |
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Keith Connolly
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| Assesses the current lack of accurate portrayals of Aboriginality despite public awareness of Indigenous issues stemming from the Royal Commission into Death...[full record]
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| newspaper - Row Over Sex Image Truth (Melbourne). 19-06-1982. p.n.p |
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John Dixon
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| Dixon speaks of the protest in "Cronella" (the films setting) occuring at the time of the films release.
Local's of the town express their dis-content with ...[full record]
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| newspaper - So painful, growing up on the crest of a wave. Mail on Sunday (London). 22-08-1982. p.24 |
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Tom Hutchinson
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| Feels that Beresford does not give the film's characters any motivations other than loutish surface appearances and doe not appear to like any of his teenage...[full record]
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| newspaper - Soft Porn Spectator. 28-08-1982. p.n.p |
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Peter Ackroyd
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| I wont waste too much energy on summarising this offering!
After noting that the only interesting fact he knows about Australia, is of it's vast transexu...[full record]
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| newspaper - Teen Comedy tinged with Despair The Age. 14-12-1981. p.10 in Arts |
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Neil Jillet
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| Jillet argues that although the film has a clumsy beginning and a botched ending, for the most part Puberty Blues is a very funny and very sad film.
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| newspaper - Teenage girls seek out right crowd in Puberty Blues Inner city Express (USA). 21-09-1983 |
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Janet Maslin
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| Maslin argues thatBeresford's way of giving the story weight is to concentrate on the grittier details.
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| newspaper - That's not a film - this is a film. Science and art come to the rescue of Australian cinema classics. The Age. 17-12-2005. p.12 |
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Steven Down
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| The article 'That's not a film - this is a film. Science and art come to the rescue of Australian cinema classics.' provides an insight into the Kodak / Atla...[full record]
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| journal - The Getting of Wisdom AWW |
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Gillian Chalmers
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| the article begins by mentioning that a 17 year-old school girl with no experience is playing the lead role in The Getting of Wisdom.
It discusses where the...[full record]
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| chapter - The Imaginary Industry, Australian Film in the Late '80s : The Aesthetic Force Field I: The AFC-Genre and the Social Realist FIlm in the '80s . 00-00-1988. pp.81-97 |
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Susan Dermody,
Elizabeth Jacka
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| This book is a thorough analysis of the Australian film industry during the 1980's. It details conditions such as finance, marketing and government policy wh...[full record]
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| chapter - The New Australian Cinema : Personal relationships and sexuality . 00-00-1980. pp.138-153 |
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Meaghan Morris
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| This chapter deals with representations of gender, inter-personal relationships and sexuality in Australian film. It is part of a collection of articles whic...[full record]
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| journal - Thursday's Child The Voice. 06-08-1980 |
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Tom Allen
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| The article begins by mentioning a few Australian movies dealing with the coming of age of young girls in the Victorian era.
it goes on to mention how Weir ...[full record]
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| journal - When will majors let oz audiences see oz short films? |
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Independent Lobby
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| Discusses where onus lies in theatrical exhibition of short films, appeal and importance of short films and reasons behind the 'major's decision. [full record]
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| chapter - Words and Images: Australian novels into film. : The Getting of Wisdom . 00-00-1983. pp.56-69 |
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Brian McFarlane
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| The article discusses how the film departs from the novel and portrays the main character as a square peg heroine with limited success. It discusses the fil...[full record]
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