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(updated 02-Nov-2011 10:31 AM )

THE SWAMP SIREN'S BURLESQUE BIBLE by JENNY TOUNE
(edited, designed and published by Robert Cettl)
The Swamp Siren’s Burlesque Bible is a lip / sip / suck of religion and ritual – complicit transgression in hand-me-down clothes. It’s an aperitif of the burlesque literary leanings of writer, poet & performer Jenny Toune: misappropriation meeting lust in the valley of the divine, Dianna handcuffed to the golden bough & Mary being pulled through visceral landscapes on her back, legs splayed.
While the language of desolation courts distorted eroticism the swamp siren dances with deception, affection and rejection, dragging intimacy in her wake.
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NOTES FROM THE AUSTRALIAN E-UNDERGROUND by VARIOUS AUTHORS
(edited, designed and published by Robert Cettl)
Bringing multi-media content to the world of the underground zine is this interactive e-zine profiling exploits in the spoken word underground scene in Adelaide, South Australia. From a rag-tag band of incompetent arse-clowns spearheading the self-important Paroxysm Press to the maker of incest porn who shot Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in concert to the infamous porn-poetry of the author demonized in South Australia's highbrow media as The Porno Poet.
With exclusive embedded video of Frank Zappa, hardcore porn loops and spoken word poetry, this is underground zine-work at its finest: polished prose, graphic illustrations and a merciless attitude borne of bitter experience.
Zines will never be the same after this multi-media one-of-a-kind experience!
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TYPHOON TOMMY by BARRIE EARL
(edited, designed and published by Robert Cettl)
Posthumously published originally in print form by Dymanic Duo Comics, Adelaide Hills author Barrie Earl's manuscript on one of WW2's least reported conflicts, The Chaco War, now comes to e-comic in full-colour and with an embedded video introduction by Dynamic Duo proprietor Michael Baulderstone.
A retro e-comic which brings vintage Australian comic book art to the rapidly expanding world of the ebook revolution for the first time, Typhoon Tommy is a first in Australian e-literature. Blending the archival, the exciting and the retro is this smart, savvy, sexy tribute to the bygone days of newspaper adventure strip serials.
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MARKETING MACHISMO: SCHWARZENEGGER'S RAW DEAL by ROBERT CETTL
It was meant to be Arnold Schwarzenegger's first sex scene but the actor did not want to do it. He'd only agreed to do the film in question, Raw Deal [Blu-ray], to finish his contractual obligations with uber-producer Dino DeLaurentiis andthe sex scene was the last straw! The actor insisted he should maintain a moral screen image and refrain from sex, especially since his character was married and the sex scene was an adulterous affair. However, such morality did not prevent a high body count in a barrage of extreme violence and - perhaps the oddest scene in a Schwarzenegger movie of the 1980s - a fight in a transvestite strip club ?!
The ins and outs of Schwarzenegger's least seen film of the 1980s, Raw Deal [Blu-ray], was released in a special edition collector's Blu-Ray and this multi-media, interactive e-book features video extracts, full colour illustrations and in-depth film criticism, making for a definitive account of the movie.
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CENSORSHIP: A CRUEL PICTURE by ROBERT CETTL
It was the first film banned in Sweden. It's pedigree is renowened: director Bo Arne Vibenius was a former assistant to the acclaimed auteur Ingmar Bergman. But Vibenius surrendered to despair. His film Thriller - A Cruel Picture (aka Thriller: They Call Her One Eye) is often cited as the greatest rape-revenge drama ever made and a personal favourite of Quentin Tarantino.
But in Australia, the uncut film is banned and DVD imports by eager exploitation fans were seized by Customs agents to the extent that online US retailers put warnings to Australian customers on their sales pages. How could this sorry state of affairs exist? All is explained in this multi-media, video-embedded scholarly account of the film and the censorship agenda surrounding it - just how and why the censorship Thriller - A Cruel Picturereveals the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of the Australian film classification system.
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