Robert Cettl: 23 books

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 that...

An 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...

Reaching out across the bleached white veldt to infect the flickering screen with a moment of insanity, Teri Louise Kelly’s short story/poetry anthology ‘Punktuation’ is a literary oil slick drifting slowly toward the burning shore. Having already deconstructed her “art form” with a veritable...

The adult movie's blurb read "The daring and violent female detective Dirty Shary investigates a case of white slavery. In order to solve the case she must enter a bordello and pretend she's a prostitute, naturally not allowed to refuse any client, for actuality's sake." Porn star...

Introduced by Friendly Street Poets collective veteran Dr. Graham Rowlands, A Rare & Vacant Hour is the first collection of poetry from experimental "beat" street performer and avant-garde poet Ivan Rehorek, aka Avaanche. The first Australian poet from this collective to bring his poetry...

Bob Chinn and porn star John Holmes jointly created the legendary XXX character Johnny Wadd in a series of popular adult movies in the 1970s, as referenced in Hollywood's tribute, Boogie Nights. Three decades later, Chinn adapted the second film in the series, Flesh of the Lotus, to a novel: Johnny...

Teri Louise Kelly’s foray into supernatural fantasy cum black humour is a deviation many had long expected.The dark side of this genre and gender bending author has long been known. But here, in A Double Pass to Aberration we witness Kelly toying playfully with vampires and zombies in alternative...

The Prophet Muhammad as a Porn Star! The most sacrilegious XXX movie ever made somehow slipped under the radical cleric radar. Yet, in the midst of current debates on free speech, apostasy and blasphemy, this one unseen, unreported movie, unknown porno flick may well just prove a test case. Violating...

"There's a worldwide war on Christianity." (Rand Paul)The Religious Right, primarily in the USA but now worldwide through evangelical outposts and mega-churches, consider the secular humanist world to be in war against Christianity. The battleground is the definition of "hate speech" vs....