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form y separately published work icon Looking for Alibrandi single work   film/TV   young adult  
Adaptation of Looking for Alibrandi Melina Marchetta , 1992 single work novel
Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 Looking for Alibrandi
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'Nonna Katia, Christina and Josie are three generations of Italian-Australian women living together in a hothouse atmosphere of love, support...and drama on an operatic scale.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 23/10/2012)

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Form: screenplay
    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2000 .
      Extent: xiii, 95p., [8]p. of platesp.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0868196231 (pbk.)
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Works about this Work

Guilt and Migrant Experience in Australia: Narratives of Happiness and Hatred Thomas Brami , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies , vol. 37 no. 1 2023; (p. 46-60) 'This paper investigates the role that guilt plays in Australia’s construction of its outsiders by focusing on contemporary migrant experience. I build upon Sarah Ahmed’s work on the politics of emotion to read migrant interviews in relation to media: films, political speeches, and other discursive structures that facilitate social organization in Australia. In the first part of this paper, I argue that a ‘multicultural narrative’ positions the nation as a ‘happy home,’ and examine how this can displace feelings of guilt in the migrant by rendering possible social transgressions positive steps towards attaining a greater social good. In the second section of this paper, I discuss Australia’s ‘hatred narratives.’ I do not define hatred as a necessarily aggressive emotion, but instead, demonstrate the way particular words can be affectively charged because of the histories they invoke, and show how this affect can be mobilized to create outsiders who are not welcome in the national imaginary and Australian society. These narratives however, are not fixed: political parties can appeal to tropes that have accumulated in affective value – such as the ‘home’ – in order to achieve different political goals, and to organize social groups by aligning individuals with or against affectively charged objects.' (Publication abstract) 
Wogs Laughing - All the Way to the Bank Jordan Baker , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 31 January 2016; (p. 28)
The 100 Best Australian Films of the New Millenium Erin Free , Dov Kornits , Travis Johnson , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 22 September 2016;
(Sweet) Sixteen Great Australian Teen Films Erin Free (editor), 2016 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 20 May 2016;
Tim Tams and Panel Vans : Looking for Alibrandi, Australia’s Best Teen Movie Sinéad Stubbins , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 30 June 2015;
— Review of Looking for Alibrandi Melina Marchetta , 2000 single work film/TV
Inspired Leap from Page to Stage James Waites , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27 January 1995; (p. 12)
— Review of Looking for Alibrandi Melina Marchetta , 2000 single work film/TV
Untitled Jonathan Dawson , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 38 2001; (p. 105-108)
— Review of Looking for Alibrandi Melina Marchetta , 2000 single work film/TV
Tim Tams and Panel Vans : Looking for Alibrandi, Australia’s Best Teen Movie Sinéad Stubbins , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 30 June 2015;
— Review of Looking for Alibrandi Melina Marchetta , 2000 single work film/TV
Talking About My Generazione Rosalie Higson , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 18 May 2005; (p. 10)
You Ought to Be in Pictures Sandy George , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Australian , 18 July 2007; (p. 16) This article discusses the reluctance of Australian filmakers to adapt literary sources to films. Publishers and agents were invited to identify books with strong cinematic poential from their own catalogues. Five film producers decided that eleven (ten from Australia and one from Scotland) would be discussed at the 2007 Melbourne International Film Festival
Melina Marchetta: An Interview Angie Schiavone (interviewer), 2009 single work interview
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , February/March no. 183 2009; (p. 6-7)
Escaping History and Shame in Looking for Alibrandi, Head On and Beneath the Clouds Felicity Collins , Therese Davis , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Cinema after Mabo 2004; (p. 152-171) In this chapter Collins and Davis analyse how the films, Looking for Alibrandi, Head On and Beneath the Clouds 'invites us to consider the relation between the past and the present .' The authors argue that the stories these films tell, regarding 'coming of age, reveal a picture of young Australians as the inheritors of a nation divided on issues of race relations, land politics, national security, and how best to deal with the shameful episodes from our colonial past.' Although these films differ in style and content they express a common 'form of teen mobility fuelled by the desire to 'escape history' ... that is symptomatic of the specific difficulties of coming of age in post-Mabo Australia.' Source : Australian Cinema after Mabo (2004).
y separately published work icon The Heinemann English Project Text Study : Looking for Alibrandi Mark Stracey , Leanne Matheson , Port Melbourne : Heinemann Education Australia , 2005 Z1756272 2005 single work criticism 'An analysis of the book and its transformation into a movie.' (Trove)
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