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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Newcastle
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Surfer Jesse (Lachlan Buchanan) lives in the shadow of his bitter half brother Victor (Reshad Strik) an ex-surf champion and the local bad boy. With the local surf pro fast approaching, Jesse and his mates plan a trip away with some local girls for a weekend of surfing and partying in the dunes. When Victor and his gang arrive at the isolated beach and decide to claim the surf break, an unofficial surf contest ensues and tragedy unfolds.

Source: In Film Australia website: http://www.infilm.com.au (Sighted 5/11/08)

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Works about this Work

'It Was the Summer When Everything Changed …' : Coming of Age Queer in Australian Cinema Kelly McWilliam , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Screen in the 2000s 2018; (p. 191-206)
Facing Death on the Australian Beach : Examining Fear and Transcendence Elizabeth Ellison , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 45 2017;

'The Australian beach has often been considered in academic approaches as a place of binaries – focusing on either the mythic (Fiske, Hodge and Turner 1987) or the ordinary (Morris 1998). An edge to the Australian continent, the liminal space of the beach is one that has received some attention. Using Edward Soja’s (1996) ‘Thirdspace’ concept allows the beach to challenge the space as a liminality and emerge as a more complex beachspace, both mythic and ordinary and more all at once. The Australian beach is a place of significant beauty, while simultaneously a place of risk and danger. Visitors to the space are immediately warned to only swim between the flags, and many beaches are patrolled for the majority of the day all throughout the year. Technology has been employed to identify risk despite the inherent unpredictability of the beach (such as shark sighting technology, weather predictions, and wave cameras), with an aim to provide a safe, everyday space available to all Australians to use. The potential risks of accidental death are high on the beach; however, many representations of death tend to include homicide or suicide. ‘Facing death’ is interested in examining how Australian writers of the beach portray death. Classic texts like Nevil Shute’s On the Beach (1957) are discussed alongside more contemporary texts, including Fiona Capp’s Night Surfing (1996), Tim Winton’s Dirt Music (2001), and Romy Ash’s Floundering (2012). These writers portray death as an inevitability or a continual threat. Films such as Newcastle (2008) represent accidental death in a tight knit local community; in comparison Blackrock (1997) deals with both murder and suicide. This paper illustrates how examining the beach as a more complex space by interrogating Australian writing on the subject allows for an interesting understanding of how death is represented on the Australian beach.' (Publication abstract)

On the Beach (No Not That One) Came a New Wave - Until the Tide Went Out Jim Schembri , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 21 December 2011; (p. 16)
The Black Coolite Shane Dunn , 2010 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Kurungabaa : A Journal of Literature, History and Ideas for Surfers , July vol. 3 no. 1 2010; (p. 32-33)
ArtsFilm Phil Brown , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 12 - 18 November no. 711 2008; (p. 28)

— Review of Newcastle Dan Castle , 2008 single work film/TV
Another Coming of Age Film Makes Few Waves Sandra Hall , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 October 2008; (p. 17)

— Review of Newcastle Dan Castle , 2008 single work film/TV
New Release Tom Ryan , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 9 November 2008; (p. 29)

— Review of Newcastle Dan Castle , 2008 single work film/TV
ArtsFilm Phil Brown , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 12 - 18 November no. 711 2008; (p. 28)

— Review of Newcastle Dan Castle , 2008 single work film/TV
The Black Coolite Shane Dunn , 2010 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Kurungabaa : A Journal of Literature, History and Ideas for Surfers , July vol. 3 no. 1 2010; (p. 32-33)
On the Beach (No Not That One) Came a New Wave - Until the Tide Went Out Jim Schembri , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 21 December 2011; (p. 16)
Facing Death on the Australian Beach : Examining Fear and Transcendence Elizabeth Ellison , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , October no. 45 2017;

'The Australian beach has often been considered in academic approaches as a place of binaries – focusing on either the mythic (Fiske, Hodge and Turner 1987) or the ordinary (Morris 1998). An edge to the Australian continent, the liminal space of the beach is one that has received some attention. Using Edward Soja’s (1996) ‘Thirdspace’ concept allows the beach to challenge the space as a liminality and emerge as a more complex beachspace, both mythic and ordinary and more all at once. The Australian beach is a place of significant beauty, while simultaneously a place of risk and danger. Visitors to the space are immediately warned to only swim between the flags, and many beaches are patrolled for the majority of the day all throughout the year. Technology has been employed to identify risk despite the inherent unpredictability of the beach (such as shark sighting technology, weather predictions, and wave cameras), with an aim to provide a safe, everyday space available to all Australians to use. The potential risks of accidental death are high on the beach; however, many representations of death tend to include homicide or suicide. ‘Facing death’ is interested in examining how Australian writers of the beach portray death. Classic texts like Nevil Shute’s On the Beach (1957) are discussed alongside more contemporary texts, including Fiona Capp’s Night Surfing (1996), Tim Winton’s Dirt Music (2001), and Romy Ash’s Floundering (2012). These writers portray death as an inevitability or a continual threat. Films such as Newcastle (2008) represent accidental death in a tight knit local community; in comparison Blackrock (1997) deals with both murder and suicide. This paper illustrates how examining the beach as a more complex space by interrogating Australian writing on the subject allows for an interesting understanding of how death is represented on the Australian beach.' (Publication abstract)

'It Was the Summer When Everything Changed …' : Coming of Age Queer in Australian Cinema Kelly McWilliam , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Screen in the 2000s 2018; (p. 191-206)
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