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Hating Alison Ashley
( dir. Geoff Bennett
)
2005
Australia
:
HAA Films
,
2005
Z1220999
2005
single work
film/TV
humour
young adult
'Erica Yurken, certain of her glittering career on the stage and her place in the world, is upstaged and forced to come to grips with her own reality when Alison Ashley arrives at the school. A comedy about the trials and tribulations of schoolyard rivalries, embarrassing family situations and the awkwardness of teenage years.'
Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 4/12/2013)
Affiliation Notes
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Chinese translation.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Braille.
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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A Voyage around My Author
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 37 no. 1 2022; (p. 12-15)
— Review of Came Back to Show You I Could Fly 1989 single work novel ; Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left 1985 single work novel ; Hating Alison Ashley 1984 single work novel ; People Might Hear You 1983 single work children's fiction ; Seeing Things 1993 single work novel ; All in the Blue Unclouded Weather 1991 single work novel -
y
Elements of Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Contemporary Australian Children's Literature
Sydney
:
2009
27495428
2009
single work
thesis
'This thesis discusses the influence of elements of Bakhtinian camivalesque in selected contemporary Australian children’s literature. Many of the Bakhtinian ideas are centred on the work of Franqois Rabelais, particularly his five books collectively entitled Gargantua and Pantagruel. Aspects of the complex field of Bakhtinian camivalesque that have been considered include: attitudes to authority, the grotesque body and its working, the importance of feasting and the associated concepts of bodily functioning, customs in relation to food, and ritual and specific language such as the use of curses and oaths. The role of humour and the manifest forms this takes within carnival are intrinsic and are discussed at some length. These central tenets are explored in two ways: first, in relation to their connection and use within the narrative structures of a selection of books short listed (and thus critically acclaimed) by the Australian Children’s Book Council from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, and second, by means of contrast, to the commercially popular but generally less critically acclaimed works of other Australian writers such as Paul Jennings and Andy Griffiths. The thesis concludes by considering the ways in which camivalesque freedom is encouraged through and by new media.'
Source: Abstract.
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[Review] Hating Alison Ashley
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 19 no. 1 2005; (p. 54)
— Review of Hating Alison Ashley 1984 single work novel -
[Review] Dancing in the Anzac Deli [et al]
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 April 1985;
— Review of Dancing in the Anzac Deli 1984 single work children's fiction ; Me and Jeshua 1984 single work children's fiction ; Something Special 1984 single work children's fiction ; Papio 1984 single work novel ; Penny Pollard's Letters 1984 single work correspondence ; Adrift 1984 single work children's fiction ; Hating Alison Ashley 1984 single work novel -
The 1985 Australian Children's Book Awards
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 72 1985; (p. 8-10)
— Review of Home in the Sky 1984 single work picture book ; Ayu and the Perfect Moon 1984 single work picture book ; Arthur 1984 single work picture book ; The Angel with a Mouth-Organ 1984 single work picture book ; The Inch Boy Helen Smith (translator), 1984 single work picture book ; There's a Sea in My Bedroom 1984 single work picture book ; The Tree Witches 1983 single work picture book ; Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge 1984 single work picture book ; The True Story of Lilli Stubeck 1984 single work novel ; Adrift 1984 single work children's fiction ; Eleanor, Elizabeth 1984 single work children's fiction ; Papio 1984 single work novel ; Penny Pollard's Letters 1984 single work correspondence ; Something Special 1984 single work children's fiction ; Me and Jeshua 1984 single work children's fiction ; Dancing in the Anzac Deli 1984 single work children's fiction ; Hating Alison Ashley 1984 single work novel
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[Review] Hating Alison Ashley
1984
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Centre Broadsheet , September - October vol. 3 no. 5 1984; (p. 3)
— Review of Hating Alison Ashley 1984 single work novel -
[Review] Hating Alison Ashley
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 19 no. 1 2005; (p. 54)
— Review of Hating Alison Ashley 1984 single work novel -
The 1985 Australian Children's Book Awards
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 72 1985; (p. 8-10)
— Review of Home in the Sky 1984 single work picture book ; Ayu and the Perfect Moon 1984 single work picture book ; Arthur 1984 single work picture book ; The Angel with a Mouth-Organ 1984 single work picture book ; The Inch Boy Helen Smith (translator), 1984 single work picture book ; There's a Sea in My Bedroom 1984 single work picture book ; The Tree Witches 1983 single work picture book ; Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge 1984 single work picture book ; The True Story of Lilli Stubeck 1984 single work novel ; Adrift 1984 single work children's fiction ; Eleanor, Elizabeth 1984 single work children's fiction ; Papio 1984 single work novel ; Penny Pollard's Letters 1984 single work correspondence ; Something Special 1984 single work children's fiction ; Me and Jeshua 1984 single work children's fiction ; Dancing in the Anzac Deli 1984 single work children's fiction ; Hating Alison Ashley 1984 single work novel -
[Review] Dancing in the Anzac Deli [et al]
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 24 April 1985;
— Review of Dancing in the Anzac Deli 1984 single work children's fiction ; Me and Jeshua 1984 single work children's fiction ; Something Special 1984 single work children's fiction ; Papio 1984 single work novel ; Penny Pollard's Letters 1984 single work correspondence ; Adrift 1984 single work children's fiction ; Hating Alison Ashley 1984 single work novel -
A Voyage around My Author
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 37 no. 1 2022; (p. 12-15)
— Review of Came Back to Show You I Could Fly 1989 single work novel ; Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left 1985 single work novel ; Hating Alison Ashley 1984 single work novel ; People Might Hear You 1983 single work children's fiction ; Seeing Things 1993 single work novel ; All in the Blue Unclouded Weather 1991 single work novel -
y
Elements of Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Contemporary Australian Children's Literature
Sydney
:
2009
27495428
2009
single work
thesis
'This thesis discusses the influence of elements of Bakhtinian camivalesque in selected contemporary Australian children’s literature. Many of the Bakhtinian ideas are centred on the work of Franqois Rabelais, particularly his five books collectively entitled Gargantua and Pantagruel. Aspects of the complex field of Bakhtinian camivalesque that have been considered include: attitudes to authority, the grotesque body and its working, the importance of feasting and the associated concepts of bodily functioning, customs in relation to food, and ritual and specific language such as the use of curses and oaths. The role of humour and the manifest forms this takes within carnival are intrinsic and are discussed at some length. These central tenets are explored in two ways: first, in relation to their connection and use within the narrative structures of a selection of books short listed (and thus critically acclaimed) by the Australian Children’s Book Council from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, and second, by means of contrast, to the commercially popular but generally less critically acclaimed works of other Australian writers such as Paul Jennings and Andy Griffiths. The thesis concludes by considering the ways in which camivalesque freedom is encouraged through and by new media.'
Source: Abstract.
Awards
- 1987 inaugural winner KOALA Awards — Secondary
- 1986 winner West Australian Young Readers' Book Award — Hoffman Award
- 1986 winner YABBA — Fiction for Older Readers
- 1985 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year Award