Robert Cettl: 23 books

Utilizing the resources of Australia's National Film & Sound Archive where the author was a SAR Research Fellow, Australian Film Tales is a collection of anecdotes covering a century of Aussie cinema. Covering the backstories to many of Australia's oldest and newest, best and worst, boldest and...

In 2012, Australia's first female Prime Minister Julia Gillard galvanized the world when in a speech before Parliament she branded Opposition leader Tony Abbott a "misogynist". In response, Australian and US dictionaries updated the meaning of the word. Less than a year later, the "misogynist" was elected...

American Capitalism as envisioned by Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese.Both hailed as black comedy and denounced as glorifying immorality, Martin Scorsese's latest film The Wolf of Wall Street teams the master American auteur with star Leonardo DiCaprio for the fifth time,...

Cinema from the Land Down Under laid bare in an anthology of little-known behind the scenes anecdotes from a century of movie-making. Meticulously researched former SAR Research Fellow at the National Film and Sound Archive Robert Cettl, Australian Film Tales brings to e-book the exciting,...

Michael Caine is acclaimed as a great actor. He is an international star and two-time Academy Award Winner (for Hannah and Her Sisters and The Cider House Rules) whose filmmaking career spans over fifty years and many nations. His classic films spring to mind immediately at the mention of his name...

Theatre may claim the monologue as its own but the movies have since claimed it as part and parcel of a successful hit. The best, most powerful and most memorable movie moments are often in the form of sensational movie monologues: fifty of the best are compiled in this e-anthology as source material...

Quoting the Movies in the Age of Home Theatre. Your favourite movie quotes in the one handy e-resource: an e-anthology of the most memorable, sexiest, strangest and funniest quotes from a century of cinema. "Are you talking to me?" Damn straight! Movie dialogue is an essential...

The first ever anthology of movie taglines, Film Tags is a thoroughly researched compendium of movie marketing magic! Covering all genres, from horror to romance, action to sci-fi and exploitation to erotica, Film Tags gives background information about, and context to, some of the most memorable,...

It was to be Arnold Schwarzenegger's first sex scene in a feature film but star and producer argued. It ended as a fight in a gay stripclub around near-naked transvestite dancers. Behind the scenes of the least-known Schwarzenegger release - Raw Deal.

Before Boogie Nights. Before Deep Throat. From the New York underground swinger set he emerged to transform adult filmmaking with a visionary zeal. With a handheld camera he adored naked, copulating bodies. With a sharp intelligence he satirized the same sexual revolution that enabled him....

Amidst the socio-sexual upheavals of the 1970s, Hollywood used a re-envisioning of the detective character from traditional film noir to essay the threat to heterosexual patriarchy posed by transgressive homosexuality.Thus, in one 1972 film emerged American cinema's way of dealing with...

In 2012, Australia's first female Prime Minister Julia Gillard galvanized the world when in a speech before Parliament she branded Opposition leader Tony Abbott a "misogynist". In response, Australian and US dictionaries updated the meaning of the word. Less than a year later, the "misogynist"...

The famous director who roughed up a death row inmate during a prison interview to get the emotional reaction he wanted | the Disney movie into which was inserted an image from Playboy magazine forcing a VHS recall | the model for a company whose logo was "99 & 44/100% Pure" who made...

A n in-depth critical re-appraisal and inside account of director Hal Ashby's final feature film 8 Million Ways to Die starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette and Andy Garcia.Hal Ashby was one of the most renowned directors of the 1970s, helming such classics as Harold & Maude, The Last...