It is based on the 1979 book by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, which was also the inspiration for the 1981 film puberty blues. Books similar to puberty blues meet your next favorite book. Written twenty years ago, puberty blues is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took australia by storm and spawned an eponymous cult movie. Puberty blues 1981 was based on the book of the same name by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, a pair of reallife sydney teens who wrote newspaper. Jul 04, 2012 heres a first look at puberty blues, a brand new australian television series airing on network ten in 2012. Teenage growing pains told from the girls point of view. The penultimate scene in puberty blues is for most viewers including this writer, the defining moment in the film. Set during the late 1970s, the series revolves around the family and friends of debbie and sue, two inseparable teenage friends who are progressing through.
The book was released in 1979 when the girls were only 18 years old, and appeared on the big screen two years later. Bruce beresfords puberty blues from australia begins with the sight of two decidedly unglamorous teenage girls as they wend their. Puberty blues is based on the 1979 book by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, which was also the inspiration for the 1981 film puberty blues. This new edition of puberty blues is published jointly by text publishing and random house australia, in time for the new channel 10 tv series screening from august 15 2012. Puberty blues offers a cheezels and splice world that predates the internet. Released two years after the book, the film captures the raw honesty and bold humour of the source material. Puberty blues follows the lives of two sunburnt 16 yearold best friends, raised in the beach city of cronulla in the sutherland shire of south sydney. In the 1970s there was a decline in the menzies government and in turn an environment was established in which australian artists could. Do you want to search free download puberty blues or free read online.
Ifyou want to download this ebook, i provide downloads as a pdf, kindle, word, txt, ppt, rar and zip. According to the australian film commission, the film is number forty four of the top australian films at the australian box office from 1966 to 2005 having earned over three million dollars. The role of puberty blues in bruce beresfords career bruce beresford has been very influential in australian cinema. Written 20 years ago, puberty blues is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took australia by storm and spawned an eponymous cult movie. Lets go over this a bit, shall we the new puberty blues stars brenna harding seen on packed to the rafters as georgia as sue and ashleigh cummings previously seen in tomorrow when the war began and miss fishers murder mysteries. The first episode of puberty blues was broadcast in november, 2015. Watch puberty blues free tv series full seasons online tubi. Download free puberty blues you can download free book and read puberty blues by kathy lette, gabrielle carey for free here. Lette complained that the film sanitised the plot by. Puberty blues traces the lives of two adolescent females who have spent the first. Jan 30, 20 puberty blues is incredibly widely read and known, with most australians being familiar with either the film, the book or both.
By day, we were at school learning logarithms, but by nightin the back of cars, under the bowling alley, on cronulla beach, or, if you were lucky, in a bed while someone. Who would seek me out and trick me into trying drugs, providing them for free until i was hooked. There are pdf versions and epub versions for mobile and tablets. Puberty blues and the representation of an australian.
Directed by bruce beresford maos last dancer, driving miss daisy, puberty blues is presented in a stunning new highdefinition transfer and includes uptodate special features produced exclusively for this release, diving deep into the 70s australian social landscape to deliver a classic coming of age tale. Episodes 1,2,7,8,9 by glendyn ivin episodes 2,3 by sean kruck. Set during the late 1970s, the series revolves around the family and friends of debbie and sue, two inseparable teenage friends who are progressing through the coming of age process. It has long been controversial with adults but much sought out by teenagers for its depictions of adolescent sex.
Heres a first look at puberty blues, a brand new australian television series airing on network ten in 2012. Puberty blues was adapted from the novel of the same name by kathy lette and gabrielle carey. The book is autobiographical and details the secret lives led by the two teenage girls growing up near cronulla beach in the. Download free puberty blues by kathy lette, gabrielle. Text publishing puberty blues, book by gabrielle carey. S2 spoiler ahead, youre probably wondering if there will be a third season in most cases when producers make television dramas they genuinely dont know if a show will get picked up. Australian tv comes of age puberty blues johnbrawley. By day, we were at school learning logarithms, but by nightin the back of cars, under the bowling alley, on cronulla beach, or, if you were lucky, in a bed while.
Excitement plus, because the new drama based on the book puberty blues premieres on wednesday the 15th august on network ten. Whereas those films followed the exploits of horny young males trying to get laid, puberty blues centres around a couple of girls, best friends debbie vickers nell schofield and sue knight jad. The girls attempt to create a popular social status by ingratiating themselves with the greenhill gang of. In this article i examine one film, puberty blues, directed by bruce beresford in 1981. She is one of the pioneering voices of contemporary feminism, paving the way for caitlin moran and lena dunham. Dec, 2016 released in 1981, bruce beresfords iconic australian film remains an unsentimental summer treat, a girlpowered trip to the beach without rosecoloured sunglasses. With brenna harding, ashleigh cummings, sean keenan, charlotte best. Puberty blues is a 1981 australian comingofage film directed by bruce beresford. Puberty blues is a leisurely, entertaining tale about a group of teenagers fumbling, fighting and fretting their way through adolescence. May 11, 2011 puberty blues is surely one those early 80s films with its own theme song that makes you just want to throw things at the tv screen, cringing at almost everything the film portrays. As an adult, lette became a newspaper columnist and sitcom writer, but returned to the novel form with girls night out in 1988 and has since written several more novels and plays, including foetal attraction, mad cows and dead sexy. Watch puberty blues online vimeo on demand on vimeo. Puberty blues 1979 is a novel by the australian writers gabrielle carey and kathy lette. It was adapted into film in 1981 by bruce beresford and was made into a tv series in 2012 the novel and film focus on the two main characters, teenagers debbie vickers and sue knight, as they try and get in with the cool crowd, the green hills gang.
Puberty blues nude scenes 6 images and 5 videos including appearances from charlotte best susie porter. Watch puberty blues free tv series full seasons online. While gabrielle might prefer a life with less publicity, she is no lesser a writer. May 18, 2011 sequence being analysed can be seen in the above video 4. This is kathy lettes first novel, written with her surfie chick friend gabrielle carey, when they were 18. There are any number of other profiles and stories, about the early days, and the bitter split, and the reality and mythology of puberty blues, available on the internet see for example, daniel mudie cunningham on the film at senses of cinema, here, or stella clarkes overview on gabrielle carey and her book moving amongt strangers, in the. Puberty blues 2 puberty blues 2 episode 4 on vimeo.
The book of puberty blues was an underground sensation at school, carefully hidden from the view of teachers for fear that theyd bust our game wide open. Puberty blues unabridged puberty blues unabridged audiobook, by kathy lette. Kathy lette is a celebrated and outspoken comic writer who has an inimitable take on serious current issues. Puberty blues is surely one those early 80s films with its own theme song that makes you just want to throw things at the tv screen, cringing at almost everything the film portrays. The mating rituals of two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of sydney. Written twenty years ago, puberty blues is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took more. Aug 15, 2012 the text publishing company and random house australia are delighted to announce that they have combined forces to publish the iconic puberty blues by gabrielle carey and kathy lette. I asked director bruce beresford why he originally. This is puberty blues 2 episode 7 by glendyn ivin on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. By day, we were at school learning logarithms, but by night in the back of cars, under the bowling alley, on cronulla beach, or, if you were lucky, in a bed. I asked director bruce beresford why he originally took on the project to adapt this edgy book to a film. We have 18 episodes of puberty blues in our archive.
Thankfully the producers havent allowed the plotline to be hijacked by our present amazement at 70s clothes, hair or cooking habits. Coming of age in the 1970s, puberty blues is about top chicks and surfie spunks and the kids who dont make it, in a world where only the gang and the surf count. Truth masquerades as fiction as kathy lette and gabrielle carey portray themselves, at thirteen years of age, as deb and sue in a tell all account of being a teenager in sydneys beachside suburbs during the 1970s. Puberty blues is an iconic australian book that based on a witheringly brutal and honest account of two best friends growing up in the misogynistic surf culture of cronulla aka the shire during the 1970s.
Puberty blues is a tv show on australian national television from network 10 with an average rating of 3. A semiautobiographical book by kathy lette and gabriele carey, it was made into a popular film directed by bruce baresford of the same title that. A disappointing version of the book for anyone who saw the 2012 and 2014. Bestselling author kathy lettes debut novel is available in britain for the first time. Puberty blues is an australian cultclassic and its the book that parents give to their children when they become a teenager to dissuade them from experimenting with drugs and sex. Gabrielle carey is often unfairly referred to as the other writer of puberty blues first published in 1979, overshadowed by the effusive kathy lette, who has written a series of laughoutloud best sellers. The 1979 puberty blues source book of the same name by kathy lette and gabrielle carey was the debut novel of both source novelists. Oct 14, 2016 puberty blues was adapted from the novel of the same name by kathy lette and gabrielle carey. Puberty blues 1981 was based on the book of the same name by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, a pair of reallife sydney teens who wrote newspaper articles under the pseudonym the salami. Puberty blues follows the lives of two sunburnt 16 yearold best friends, raised in. I remember reading the book in high school when it was a compulsory part of the literature curriculum and in time its become an important protofeminist work.
My copy is a 2002 reprint from england with new forewards by two of the few australian lady celebs, kylie minogue and germaine greer. The film is based on the 1979 novel puberty blues, by gabrielle carey and kathy lette, which is a protofeminist teen novel about two yearold girls from the lower middle class sutherland shire in sydney. Aug, 2016 the book of puberty blues was an underground sensation at school, carefully hidden from the view of teachers for fear that theyd bust our game wide open. I just felt that is was so well written, and quite thought provoking. A television series based on the novel began airing in 2012. Enjoy your favourite words brought to life with our fantastic selection of adaptations at sbs on demand. Kathy lette and gabrielle carey are the authors of the book puberty blues. In my local video rental shop, puberty blues sat on the same shelf as coming of age classics porkys, screwballs and the lemon popsicle series. The cast and crew kathy lette was particularly happy with schofields performance, which in effect functioned as a massive celluloid magnification of her own grungy teenage experiences. In the late 1970s, debbie and sue are inseparable teenage girls. Puberty blues 2 puberty blues 2 episode 7 on vimeo. Enjoy a rich lineup of tv shows and movies included with your prime membership.
Jul 24, 2012 excitement plus, because the new drama based on the book puberty blues premieres on wednesday the 15th august on network ten. Set during the late 1970s, the series revolves around the family and friends of debbie and sue, two inseparable teenage friends who are progressing through the coming. Puberty blues is a 1979 novel by gabrielle carey and kathy lette. Sequence being analysed can be seen in the above video 4. Puberty blues is an australian comingofage comedydrama television series broadcast on network ten. Over the course of the narrative, schoolgirls sue knight jad capelja and debbie vickers nell schofield have progressively ingratiated themselves into the cool cronulla beach surfie set. Puberty blues by gabrielle carey penguin books australia. In the 1970s there was a decline in the menzies government and in turn an environment was established in which australian artists could experiment with cinema, p. Episodes 1,2,7,8,9 by glendyn ivin episodes 2,3 by sean kruck episodes 4,5 by emma freeman. I am male and a senior citizen, but i enjoyed the channel 10 tv drama of puberty blues so much ashleigh cummings was just wonderful as debbie that i wanted to read the book. Text publishing puberty blues, book by gabrielle carey and. Written twenty years ago, puberty blues is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took. Jul 01, 2008 in this article i examine one film, puberty blues, directed by bruce beresford in 1981. Truth masquerades as fiction as kathy lette and gabrielle carey portray themselves, at thirteen years of age, as deb and sue in a tell all account of being a teenager in.
If you saw the season finale for puberty blues warning. Puberty blues 1981 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Puberty blues by kathy lette and gabrielle carey gabrielle carey is often unfairly referred to as the other writer of puberty blues first published in 1979, overshadowed by the effusive kathy lette, who has written a series of laughoutloud best sellers. Puberty blues is a retrospective that will appeal to both teens and adults trying to find the wisdom to navigate a childs most turbulent years.
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