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1 y separately published work icon From Dunny, Damnation to Distinction : Tim Burstall on Tim Burstall Tim Burstall , Canberra : ScreenSound Australia , 2005 Z1541918 2005 single work autobiography
1 y separately published work icon Puberty Blues Nell Schofield , Sydney : Currency Press ScreenSound Australia , 2004 Z1354318 2004 single work criticism

'Bruce Beresford's Puberty Blues is a funny and poignant film that still speaks to the teenage audience as it honestly and sensitively deals with some of the central trials and temptations of growing up. The author recounts her experiences as the star of the film and what it was like filming the book by Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey.' (Source: Libraries Australia).

'Schofield recalls how she won the role of Debbie and what it was like on the set. She looks at the parallels between the film, the book and her own surfside teenage years, and at the extraordinary responses to the film, both on its release and since.' - Back cover

1 8 y separately published work icon Walkabout Louis Nowra , Sydney : Currency Press ScreenSound Australia , 2003 Z1039055 2003 single work criticism

'Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout opened worldwide in 1971. Based on the novel of the same name by James Vance Marshall, it is the story of two white children lost in the Australian Outback. They survive only through the help of an Aboriginal boy who is on walkabout during his initiation into manhood. The film earned itself a unique place in cinematic history and was re-released in 1998.

In this illuminating reflection on Walkabout, Louis Nowra, one of Australia's leading dramatists and screenwriters, discusses Australia's iconic sense of the outback; and the peculiar resonance that the story of the lost child has in the Australian psyche. He tells how the film came to be made and how its preoccupations fit into the oeuvre of both its director and cinematographer Nicolas Roeg, and its screenwriter Edward Bond.

Nowra identifies the film's distinctive take on a familiar story and its fable-like qualities, while also exploring the film's relationship to Australia and its implications for the English society of its day. He recognizes how relevant the film is to the contemporary struggle to try and find common ground between blacks and white.' -- Currency Press (2003)

1 5 y separately published work icon The Devil's Playground Christos Tsiolkas , Strawberry Hills Canberra : Currency Press ScreenSound Australia , 2002 Z1046714 2002 single work criticism 'Christos Tsiolkas invites you into his twenty-five year journey of viewing, reviewing and re-imagining the film [The Devil's Playground]. He remembers his first illicit experience of the film at age thirteen and describes how his views of it changed in later years. As he chronicles the impact of The Devil's Playground on the development of his love of cinema, he also explores the film in terms of sexuality, politics, history and aesthetics.' -- Currency Press website (http://www.currency.com.au/film_index.htm)
1 y separately published work icon ScreenSound Australia Monograph ScreenSound Australia (publisher), Canberra : ScreenSound Australia , 2001-2005 Z1542551 2001-2005 series - publisher criticism autobiography Published versions of the annual Longford Lyell Lecture.
1 y separately published work icon Don't Worry Baby, They'll Swing Their Arses Off : The Stories of Australian Jazz Musicians John Sharpe (editor), Canberra : 2001 Z1529813 2001 single work oral history Don't Worry Baby, They'll Swing Their Arses Off is a series of excerpts from oral histories with Australian jazz musicians. The complete oral histories are held (and in most cases are available) at ScreenSound Australia. The editor John Sharpe is himself a well-known jazz musician from Canberra. John has travelled the country interviewing musicians and the results make absorbing reading. -- Publisher's blurb.
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