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Subject: WEAVING, HUGO; FOR LOVE ALONE (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1985)
Summary: Production notes and review of 'For Love Alone', now staring Hugo Weaving

Author: Cook, Anne-Marie
PhysDes: Article
Subject: HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS; WOMEN IN FILMS; MARRIAGE IN FILMS; FOR LOVE ALONE (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1985)
Summary: This article positions Stephen Wallace's adaptation (1986) of Christina Stead's novel, For Love Alone (1944), as a conservative revision of a literary text whose radical engagement with queer desires challenged heteronormative values and institutions. Drawing upon production files, personal correspondence with the film-maker, literary and film criticism and textual analysis, the article quantifies the ideological work of the adaptation. It identifies Stead's treatment of non-monogamous heterosexual relationships, fantasies rooted alternative sexual practices and homoerotic triangulations as the basis for the novel's queer space. It then shows how the film imposed a heteronormative sensibility upon the narrative by eliminating references to any form of same-sex desire, framing the heroine's journey as a marriage quest that ignored other aspects of personal and professional development and confirming her abandonment of free love in favour of wedded bliss. The article traces this eradication of queer space to factors in the adaptation process, logistical issues that arose during production and promotional discourses that encouraged it to be received as a love story. By reflecting on the significance of the film's failure to register the novel's queer resonances, its active promotion of monogamous marriage and the circumstances that produced those creative decisions, the article sheds light on the ideological dynamics of both the film and the creative process as a whole. -- Abstract

Subject: BUDAY, HELEN; FOR LOVE ALONE (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1985); INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA : NEW SOUTH WALES
Summary: Article on Helen Buday and her up-comming role in 'For Love Alone'

Subject: WOMEN OF UTOPIA (AT, Keith Gow, 1984); SILVER CITY (AT, Sophia Turkiewicz, 1984); FOR LOVE ALONE (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1985); INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. USSR
Summary: Article on five Australian films (inc. 'Light Industrial' and 'Strike Bound') are being screened at the XIV international film festival, Moscow, 28/6-12/7/1985

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings; Publicity; Stills
Subject: FOR LOVE ALONE (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1985)

Author: Mitchell, Tony
PhysDes: Article
Subject: FOR LOVE ALONE (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1985)
Summary: Review of "For Love Alone"; Credits

Call No: P FOR
PhysDes: 1 poster : col. ; 99 X 65 cm.
Subject: FOR LOVE ALONE (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1985)
Summary: Image: men and women are kissing. Text: 'She was obsessed. She was daring...'
Notes: Tears on the right hand side and left hand side.

Call No: TITLE STILLS AUSTRALIA
Source: AT
PhysDes: 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
Subject: BUDAY, HELEN; NEILL, SAM; FOR LOVE ALONE (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1985)
Summary: One black photograph of Helen Buday and Sam Neill in 'For love alone'

Author: Maddox, Garry
PhysDes: Article
Subject: FOR LOVE ALONE (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1985)
Summary: On location on "For Love Alone"

PhysDes: Article
Subject: MY BRILLIANT CAREER (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1979); FOR LOVE ALONE (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1985); FINK, MARGARET; PRODUCERS. AUSTRALIA; INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Article on producer Margaret Fink's latest film idea and what she is searching for in a cast.

Subject: NEILL, SAM; FOR LOVE ALONE (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1985); FOR LOVE ALONE (AT, Stephen Wallace, 1985); INDUSTRY, FILM. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Article on Sam Neill accepting the part in 'For Love Alone' which is being produced by Margaret Fink and U.A.A.