Sex and subculture: Bruce Beresford's Puberty Blues

Title: Sex and subculture: Bruce Beresford's Puberty Blues
Creator: Featherstone, Lisa
Relation: Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand p. 164-168
Relation: http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/The%20arts/Film%20TV%20%20radio/Television/Making%20Film%20and%20Television%20Histories%20Australia%20and%20New%20Zealand.aspx
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2011
Description: The film Puberty Blues exploded into Australian cinemas in the summer of 1981. Puberty Blues was a savage, satirical and sometimes downright frightening study of a 'surfie' subculture in Sydney in the early 1970s. Directed by the Australian, Bruce Beresford, the film was based on the cult autobiographical novel of the same name, written by teenagers Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey in 1979. An instant success at the box office, it was a wild ride, an uninhibited view of teenage life. Set in Cronulla, a south Sydney beachside suburb, the film traces the story of protagonists Debbie (Nell Schofield) and Sue (Jad Capelja). The characters' story begins in 'Dickheadland' and they slowly become part of the coolest gang on their beach, with all this encompasses - drunken parties, fumbling sex and getting high.
Subject: Puberty Blues; Australian film; surf culture
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1062101
Identifier: uon:17038
Identifier: ISBN:9781848859449
Language: eng

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