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An anthology television series of twelve half-hour dramas written and directed by local filmmakers of diverse backgrounds. The stories deal with social issues such as cross culturalism and family.
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- form y Windows Australia : SBS Television , 1993 7013693 1993 single work film/TV Australia : SBS Television , 1993
- form y Old Sam, Jasper and Mr Frank 1994 Z975869 1994 single work film/TV children's 1994
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[Review Essay] Under the Skin
2014
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 362 2014; ABR : Arts 2014;
— Review of Under the Skin 1993 series - publisher film/TV'Under the Skin is adapted from Michael Faber’s eponymous speculative fiction novel (2000) in which an alien disguised as an attractive woman hunts hitchhikers in the Scottish highlands. Once she has determined that a man is appropriate prey, she drugs him and delivers him to a subterranean abattoir hidden beneath a farm where, in a disturbing allegorisation of factory farming, he is castrated, fattened up like foie gras, and prepared for shipment back to the alien home planet where human flesh is an expensive delicacy. This adaptation of Faber’s novel is the long-anticipated third feature film from director Jonathan Glazer.' (Introduction)
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[Review Essay] Under the Skin
2014
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 362 2014; ABR : Arts 2014;
— Review of Under the Skin 1993 series - publisher film/TV'Under the Skin is adapted from Michael Faber’s eponymous speculative fiction novel (2000) in which an alien disguised as an attractive woman hunts hitchhikers in the Scottish highlands. Once she has determined that a man is appropriate prey, she drugs him and delivers him to a subterranean abattoir hidden beneath a farm where, in a disturbing allegorisation of factory farming, he is castrated, fattened up like foie gras, and prepared for shipment back to the alien home planet where human flesh is an expensive delicacy. This adaptation of Faber’s novel is the long-anticipated third feature film from director Jonathan Glazer.' (Introduction)