form y separately published work icon No Worries single work   film/TV   children's  
Adaptation of No Worries David Holman , 1984 single work drama
Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 No Worries
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A story of an Australian outback family's courage as they struggle on a drought-plagued farm. Forced from their land, the Bells move to the city, where their daughter Matilda has difficulty coping. However, her friendship with another dislocated little girl, a Vietnamese refugee, helps her to adapt.

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it contains a Vietnamese character.

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Ethnicity, Agency, and Cultural Identity : Nexus and Difference in Australian Youth Films Robyn McCallum , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , August vol. 8 no. 2 1998; (p. 40-47) McCallum is interested in texts which deal with narratives of migration and cultural difference and representations of social and cultural diversity in children's literature, as '...attempts in film and literature to represent cultural diversity in Australian society are apt to proceed through quotation of iconic and stereo-typed images of difference...' (40). She analyses three Australian films, No Worries, Captain Johnno, and On Loan and argues that fundamentally the 'representations of social and cultural difference are ideologically shaped by an overarching metanarrative of subject formation which stresses the value of intersubjective relationships as a way of overcoming the alienation that occurs from cultural, social and physical displacement' (46).
Ethnicity, Agency, and Cultural Identity : Nexus and Difference in Australian Youth Films Robyn McCallum , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , August vol. 8 no. 2 1998; (p. 40-47) McCallum is interested in texts which deal with narratives of migration and cultural difference and representations of social and cultural diversity in children's literature, as '...attempts in film and literature to represent cultural diversity in Australian society are apt to proceed through quotation of iconic and stereo-typed images of difference...' (40). She analyses three Australian films, No Worries, Captain Johnno, and On Loan and argues that fundamentally the 'representations of social and cultural difference are ideologically shaped by an overarching metanarrative of subject formation which stresses the value of intersubjective relationships as a way of overcoming the alienation that occurs from cultural, social and physical displacement' (46).
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Awards

1993 winner AWGIE Awards — Film Award — Adaptation
1993 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Screenplay, Adapted
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