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Urban Australia and Post-Punk

Exploring Dogs in Space

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Editors:
  1. David Nichols

    1. University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

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  2. Sophie Perillo

    1. University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

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  • Offers a multi-disciplinary range of texts, analyses and primary sources to illuminate the post-punk milieu of inner-city Australia; its social historical impact; its reflection in built environment use and reuse; and its representation in film
  • Features original and hitherto undocumented interviews and materials relating to Dogs in Space; testimony from both observers and participants in the film and the events it portrays; and analysis and research from academics and insiders
  • Provides new insight into a film continually growing in popularity and value over time; mapping the richness of a multi-layered work, providing insight into a host of historical and contemporary worlds

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Sophie Perillo
    Pages 1-8

  3. If You Were a Freak, You Were Equally Excluded

    • Sam Sejavka
    Pages 9-22

  4. It Was Filmic

    • Peter Farnan
    Pages 23-26

  5. I Was In-Between Two Worlds

    • John Clifforth
    Pages 27-33

  6. The B-Side of a Single? An Autobiohistoriography

    • Stuart Grant
    Pages 35-50

  7. In My Mind the World Was Safer

    • Karen Ansel
    Pages 51-59

  8. Let’s Go and Get in Some Trub

    • Edward Clayton-Jones
    Pages 61-66

  9. Everyone Was Interchangeable

    • Jules Taylor
    Pages 67-72

  10. We’re the Most Fabulous People Australia Has Ever Known

    • Cornelius Delaney
    Pages 73-80

  11. It Was Never Pistols at Dawn

    • Cathy McQuade
    Pages 81-86

  12. Bowie Queues

    • Bruce Butler
    Pages 87-100

  13. Excerpt from Comic Book

    • Jerome Gaynor
    Pages 101-104

  14. Rock Star in Space

    • Zora Simic
    Pages 105-122

  15. The Intimacy of Distance: Re/Reading Dogs in Space

    • Laura Carroll
    Pages 123-139

  16. ‘Someone’s Been Fucking Using This for Meat Again’: 18 Berry Street and Melbourne Sharehousing in the 1970s and 1980s

    • Molly McKew, Katherine Ellinghaus
    Pages 141-156

  17. Richmond and 18 Berry Street Revisited

    • James Lesh, David Nichols
    Pages 157-173

  18. ‘Making It’: The Ears, INXS, and Music Scene Restructuring as Seen Through Dogs in Space

    • Sarah Taylor
    Pages 175-208

  19. The Strange Life of ‘Shivers’ and Its Place in Dogs in Space

    • Lisa MacKinney
    Pages 209-226

  20. ‘The Fucked Room’: Situating the Dogs in Space Soundtrack and ‘Rooms for the Memory’ in the Diffusion of the Dogs in Space Story

    • David Nichols
    Pages 227-245
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About this book

Richard Lowenstein’s 1986 masterpiece Dogs in Space was and remains controversial, divisive, compelling and inspirational. Made less than a decade after the events it is based on, using many of the people involved in those events as actors, the film explored Melbourne’s ‘postpunk’ counterculture of share houses, drugs and decadence. Amongst its ensemble cast was Michael Hutchence, one of the biggest music stars of the period, in his acting debut. 


This book is a collection of essays exploring the place, period and legacy of Dogs in Space, by people who were there or who have been affected by this remarkable film. The writers are musicians, actors and artists and also academics in heritage, history, urban planning, gender studies, geography, performance and music. This is an invaluable resource for anyone passionate about Australian film, society, culture, history, heritage, music and art.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

    David Nichols, Sophie Perillo

About the editors

David Nichols lectures in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne, with a focus on history, culture, community and place. His previous books include Community: Building Modern Australia (co-edited with Hannah Lewi), Trendyville: the Battle for Australia’s Inner Cities (with Renate Howe and Graeme Davison) and Dig: Australian Rock and Pop Music 1960-1985.


Sophie Perillo is an interdisciplinary performance artist, musician and writer. She has devised independent and collaborative performance works for Artist Run Initiatives, major galleries and festivals. She has performed in Melbourne bands The Ancients, PSA and Hi God People. Her research and writing is centred in gender theory, performativity and theatricality.




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