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Adaptations
-
form
y
Puberty Blues
( dir. Bruce Beresford
)
Sydney
:
Limelight Productions
,
1981
Z826184
1981
single work
film/TV
(taught in 3 units)
Debbie and Sue are accepted into Greenhill Beach's gang, an elite group of teenagers occupying a particular stretch of Cronulla beachfront. As surfie groupies, Debbie and Sue find out that they are expected to submit to male whims and play out 'strange' rituals, such as not eating or going to the bathroom when a boy is around. The girls' life mainly consists of doing what everyone else does: watching the boys surf, having sex with them (in the back seat of cars and at home-alone parties), and getting drunk. The narrative maintains a humorously ironic distance from the awfulness of the scene, particularly through the use of narration. The boys, though portrayed as collectively dominant, are individually consigned to the margins, while Debbie and Sue ultimately break out of the confines of male-imposed rules.
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form
y
Puberty Blues
( dir. Emma Freeman
et. al. )agent
Australia
:
Southern Star John Edwards
,
2012-2014
Z1832856
2012
series - publisher
film/TV
'Puberty Blues is an Australian classic which chronicles a special moment of our history. In the early 1970s, the middle baby boomers were coming into their adolescence and early adulthood. The sexual revolution was in full flow. In America "teenagerdom" had come into its own in the sixties. It happened here in the seventies, with the arrival of drugs and the anti-Vietnam fed youth rebellion. And the wild mood finds its apotheosis in surf culture. Puberty Blues is a picture of Australian suburban life in revolution as the wild kids get their rocks off, exploring the worlds of the parents in a context where money and loans are much cheaper, divorce is much easier, full employment and prosperity abound, conventional morality is shifting and everything is endlessly possible.'
Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 20/8/2013)
Notes
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Dedication: To Virginia Ferguson our literary god-mother.
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Brief extract published in the Age, 6 February 1995, Student Update, p.4.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Braille.
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Ten Great Australian Beach Reads Set at the Beach
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 28 December 2018;
— Review of Floundering 2012 single work novel ; Puberty Blues 1979 single work novel ; Time's Long Ruin : A Novel 2008 single work novel ; Breath 2008 single work novel ; The Empty Beach 1983 single work novel ; The True Colour of the Sea 2018 selected work short story ; Atomic City 2013 single work novel ; Not Meeting Mr Right 2007 single work novel ; After January 1996 single work novel ; Bluebottle 2018 single work novel -
Books That Changed Me : Megan Jacobson
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 7 February 2016; (p. 12) -
On and Off the Beach : Puberty Blues on Film
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 378-384) -
Lyn Linning Looks at Reprints to Enjoy Again and Introduce to a New Readership
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 27 no. 5 2012; (p. 41)
— Review of Puberty Blues 1979 single work novel ; Greylands 1997 single work children's fiction -
Puberty Begins August
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 23 July 2012; (p. 21)
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First Impressions : The Critical Archives
1979
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 7 November 1979; The Age , 27 September 2003; (p. 2)
— Review of Puberty Blues 1979 single work novel -
Lyn Linning Looks at Reprints to Enjoy Again and Introduce to a New Readership
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 27 no. 5 2012; (p. 41)
— Review of Puberty Blues 1979 single work novel ; Greylands 1997 single work children's fiction -
[Review] Puberty Blues
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 7 no. 4 1993; (p. 7-8)
— Review of Puberty Blues 1979 single work novel -
Books
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 13 October 2002; (p. 9)
— Review of Puberty Blues 1979 single work novel -
Ten Great Australian Beach Reads Set at the Beach
2018
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 28 December 2018;
— Review of Floundering 2012 single work novel ; Puberty Blues 1979 single work novel ; Time's Long Ruin : A Novel 2008 single work novel ; Breath 2008 single work novel ; The Empty Beach 1983 single work novel ; The True Colour of the Sea 2018 selected work short story ; Atomic City 2013 single work novel ; Not Meeting Mr Right 2007 single work novel ; After January 1996 single work novel ; Bluebottle 2018 single work novel -
Chalk and Cheese
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Australian Women's Weekly , October 2002; (p. 80-84) -
'Puberty Blues' Recalled, 23 Years On
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 15 January 2005; (p. 9) -
Puberty Blues Takes Feminist Generationalism to the Beach
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Feminist Studies , November vol. 20 no. 48 2005; (p. 281-289) -
Australian Beach Culture : Puberty Blues Revisited
2005
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Sydney Papers , Autumn vol. 17 no. 2 2005; (p. 35-44) Discusses the resurgence of interest in the cult film Puberty Blues and the way in which beach culture has changed in Australia since it was made in 1981. - y So Many Selves Sydney : ABC Books , 2006 Z1318254 2006 single work autobiography
Awards
- 2010 shortlisted Australian Book Review Fan Poll
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- ca. 1972