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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Idiot Box
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'Two unemployed men, bored by life and angry at the world, spend their time drinking beer and watching videos until one day they actually decide to do something - rob a bank.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 6/8/2013)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Form: screenplay
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Works about this Work

Get A Dog Up Ya : The Making Of Idiot Box Erin Free , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 12 December 2018;
Cinematic and Televisual Cities Ben Goldsmith , 2012-2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , March vol. 5 no. 3 2012; (p. 215-221) 'This article introduces the nine articles that comprise the 'Cities' issue of Studies in Australasian Cities. Established and emerging scholars explore cities in Australian and New Zealand film and television. Articles cover aspects of media production, reception and exhibition in particular cities, studies of various city characters and spaces, and analyses of the relationship between representations of a city on-screen and the 'real' city.' (Editor's abstract)
'Trashing the Suburban Streets' : Learning about 'Bad' Youth with/in Idiot Box and Suburban Mayhem Kristina Gottschall , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , March vol. 5 no. 3 2012; (p. 293-306)
Who's Afraid of the Working Class? We Are Rebecca Harkins-Cross , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , no. 13 2011; (p. 33, 37)
Rules of Engagement : Cross-Cultural Glances in Critical Writing on Recent French and Australian 'Youth' Films Joe Hardwick , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies , vol. 19 no. 1 2005; (p. 73-84)
Cinematic and Televisual Cities Ben Goldsmith , 2012-2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , March vol. 5 no. 3 2012; (p. 215-221) 'This article introduces the nine articles that comprise the 'Cities' issue of Studies in Australasian Cities. Established and emerging scholars explore cities in Australian and New Zealand film and television. Articles cover aspects of media production, reception and exhibition in particular cities, studies of various city characters and spaces, and analyses of the relationship between representations of a city on-screen and the 'real' city.' (Editor's abstract)
Rules of Engagement : Cross-Cultural Glances in Critical Writing on Recent French and Australian 'Youth' Films Joe Hardwick , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies , vol. 19 no. 1 2005; (p. 73-84)
Who's Afraid of the Working Class? We Are Rebecca Harkins-Cross , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , no. 13 2011; (p. 33, 37)
'Trashing the Suburban Streets' : Learning about 'Bad' Youth with/in Idiot Box and Suburban Mayhem Kristina Gottschall , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australasian Cinema , March vol. 5 no. 3 2012; (p. 293-306)
Get A Dog Up Ya : The Making Of Idiot Box Erin Free , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 12 December 2018;
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