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ROBERT CETTL
"An atheist with nothing to fear is a free human being."
ABN: 96079442081 (Transgressor: sole trader)
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Robert Cettl
Freelance author, agent, editor, librarian, digital publisher and filmmaker, Robert has a BA (Hons) in Cinema Studies from the Flinders University of South Australia. He participated in an international student exchange scholarship to the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale in the USA. In addition, he holds a Post-Grad Dip in Information Studies (Librarianship) from UniSA, Australia. From April 6th to May 28th 2010, Robert was a SAR Research Fellow at the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra, ACT, Australia after receiving a government arts grant through Arts-SA.
CONTACT: robert(at)widerscreenings.com
Published Works
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FORTHCOMING IN 2010:
Always an Other? Representations of Disability in Australian Cinema; National Film & Sound Archive; Canberra, ACT. (interactive ebook) advance information here
“Patriarchy, Pathology & Pornography: Sex-Murder as Structure in the Serial Killer Film”; in D’Costa A (ed); title tba; Curtin University; Perth WA. (peer review essay)
Film Tales: New & Improved e-Edition; Transgressor; Adelaide, SA. (interactive ebook)
Self-Helping Cinema: the Law of Attraction goes to the Movies; Transgressor; Adelaide, SA. (interactive ebook)
COLUMN:
2009 - "Wider Screenings" column in No Limits free e-zine
BOOKS IN PRINT:
Terrorism in American Cinema, McFarland Inc., Jefferson NC, 2009.
Film Tags: Promoting the Movies in the Age of DVD, Inkstone Press, Adelaide, 2008.
Film Talk: Quoting the Movies in the Age of DVD, Inkstone Press, Adelaide, 2008.
Film Tales: Movie Trivia in the Age of DVD, Inkstone Press, Adelaide, 2007.
Serial Killer Cinema: an Analytical Filmography with an Introduction, McFarland Inc., Jefferson NC, 2003/2007.
E-BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD:
Film Tags: Promoting the Movies in the Age of DVD, Inkstone Digital, 2009.
Film Talk: Promoting the Movies in the Age of Home Theatre (e-edition), Transgressor, 2009.
Terrorism in American Cinema, McFarland, 2009. (coming soon to Amazon Kindle)
COMPLETED FILMS / DIGITAL VIDEO PRODUCTIONS
2010:
Confidential Report: an Australian Transgression (75 mins) (producer, director, editor, writer, cinematographer, distributor)
(accessioned into the National Film & Sound Archive by June 2010 for placement on restricted access due to sexually explicit material in a documentary context: Christian ethical influences on film & literature classification law in relation to disability arts government grant funding for sex worker self-expression in Adelaide, 2009)
http://www.sa-minihost.com/Find-a-film/faf.aspx
2009:
Hard Boiled in the Festival City! (20 mins) (producer, director, editor, writer, cinematographer, distributor)
(an opium dream-like live doco record of underground Adelaide spoken word performance-poetry filmed on location at La Boheme Café, Grote Street)
Queen of Skank! (16 mins) (producer, director, editor, writer, cinematographer, distributor)
(Transgressive, sexually explicit documentary record of punk spoken word performance artist Mel Kelly (aka Recyclopath) filmed on the occasion of her reception of an ARTS-SA government disability arts grant)
MEMBERSHIPS / AFFILIATIONS
Full Member, Australian Society of Authors; South Australian Media Resource Centre; UniSA Alumni Network; Australian Sex Party (ASP) since 2009; Eligible for membership of ALIA at any time; Registered Digital Publisher with Thorpe-Bowker
