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Adaptation of Turtle Beach Blanche d'Alpuget , 1981 single work novel
Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Turtle Beach
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Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes romantically involved with Kanan and strikes up a friendship with Lady Minou Hobday, who keeps a regular vigil at Turtle Beach, where the refugees try to land. Hobday's obsession with the beach is due to her secret hope that one day her own children will arrive there. Accompanying Hobday one night, Judith witnesses a brutal massacre by the Malaysians, which spurs her on to expose the horrors of the internment camps at Bidong.

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First known date: 1992
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Abroad : Production Tracks and Narrative Trajectories in Films About Australians in Asia Allison Craven , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Screen in the 2000s 2018; (p. 99-117) Examines two modern 'Asian-Australian' films that represent Australians abroad in Asia (including India and Cambodia), and compares them to earlier films of Australians overseas.
Inaccuracy and Distortion as Means of Positioning the Reader : A Study of Turtle Beach Texts J. V. D'Cruz , William Steele , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 594-622) Examines the book and the film Turtle Beach and their quasi-doumentary techniques in relation to historical accuracy and ethnic stereotypes.
The Orphan Complex : An Australian Myth Travels to Asia Gabrielle Finnane , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia and Asia : Cultural Transactions 1997; (p. 52-69) 'This essay is a redescription of Australian films set in or dealing in some way with Asia. If an imaginary 'Asia' is sometimes a feature of Australian films, it is only as a generic motif viewed entirely through a lens of internal preoccupations of Australian culture. [...] To my eyes Romper Stomper and The Good Woman of Bangkok have a long cultural genealogy (pp. 53, 54).
Turtle Beach: From Novel to Film Kylie Knox , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Uniken , 3 April no. 4 1992; (p. 4)
Turtle is Beached High and Dry 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21 March 1992; (p. wkd 8)
— Review of Turtle Beach Ann Turner , 1992 single work film/TV
Promises Not Delivered Rob Lowing , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 22 March 1992; (p. 113)
— Review of Turtle Beach Ann Turner , 1992 single work film/TV
The Art of Soft Focus Sandra Hall , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 31 March vol. 113 no. 5813 1992; (p. 105)
— Review of Turtle Beach Ann Turner , 1992 single work film/TV
Serious Issue Suffers Stan James , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 21 March 1992; (p. 5)
— Review of Turtle Beach Ann Turner , 1992 single work film/TV
'Turtle Beach' is a Total Botch Dougal Macdonald , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 March 1992; (p. C6)
— Review of Turtle Beach Ann Turner , 1992 single work film/TV
Turtle is Beached High and Dry 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21 March 1992; (p. wkd 8)
— Review of Turtle Beach Ann Turner , 1992 single work film/TV
Inaccuracy and Distortion as Means of Positioning the Reader : A Study of Turtle Beach Texts J. V. D'Cruz , William Steele , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 594-622) Examines the book and the film Turtle Beach and their quasi-doumentary techniques in relation to historical accuracy and ethnic stereotypes.
The Orphan Complex : An Australian Myth Travels to Asia Gabrielle Finnane , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia and Asia : Cultural Transactions 1997; (p. 52-69) 'This essay is a redescription of Australian films set in or dealing in some way with Asia. If an imaginary 'Asia' is sometimes a feature of Australian films, it is only as a generic motif viewed entirely through a lens of internal preoccupations of Australian culture. [...] To my eyes Romper Stomper and The Good Woman of Bangkok have a long cultural genealogy (pp. 53, 54).
Turtle Beach: From Novel to Film Kylie Knox , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Uniken , 3 April no. 4 1992; (p. 4)
Film Turns Turtle on Boat People Facts Greg Sheridan , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australian , 14 February 1992; (p. 1,5)
Bloodying the Deep Waters of Diplomacy Cameron Forbes , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 12 February 1992; (p. 11)
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Last amended 28 Sep 2012 12:29:19
Stephen Henry Wallace
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    Malaysia,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • 1970s
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