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'Taking as emblematic her recollections of the impact of encountering Dogs in Space on the threshold of adulthood in the late 1980s, Laura Carroll proposes that the film’s layered and collage-like relationship to time, place and genre make it available as a map for young Australians, especially those growing up outside the major cities, who seek to find their ways into lives of aesthetic and political playfulness and creativity. Her essay offers a series of readings of the film’s physical and social space-making gestures, concentrating on the messy, fertile microcosm of the inner urban share house, pinning those reflections to an autobiographical narrative which shifts between past and present in a way that mirrors the film’s alternating invention and re-enactment of the world it explores.'

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    y separately published work icon Urban Australia and Post-punk : Exploring Dogs in Space David Nichols (editor), Sophie Perillo (editor), Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2020 18831404 2020 anthology criticism essay

    'Richard Lowenstein’s 1986 masterpiece Dogs in Space was and remains controversial, divisive, compelling and inspirational. Made less than a decade after the events it is based on, using many of the people involved in those events as actors, the film explored Melbourne’s ‘postpunk’ counterculture of share houses, drugs and decadence. Amongst its ensemble cast was Michael Hutchence, one of the biggest music stars of the period, in his acting debut.

    'This book is a collection of essays exploring the place, period and legacy of Dogs in Space, by people who were there or who have been affected by this remarkable film. The writers are musicians, actors and artists and also academics in heritage, history, urban planning, gender studies, geography, performance and music. This is an invaluable resource for anyone passionate about Australian film, society, culture, history, heritage, music and art.' (Publication summary)

         Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2020     pg. 123-139
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