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form y separately published work icon Underbelly series - publisher   film/TV   crime  
Note: Based on the non-fiction book Leadbelly by John Silvester and Andrew Rule.
Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Underbelly
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Miniseries exploring the gangland wars of Melbourne. Before Victorian Police finally intercepted plans for two contract killings in 2004, leading to multiple arrests, the death toll stood at thirty three, making it one of the bloodiest crime wars in the Western world.

Notes

  • Mini-series.
  • For further information see the Underbelly website, http://www.underbellytv.com/.

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form y separately published work icon Wise Monkeys Felicity Packard , Australia : Screentime Nine Network , 2008 Z1529977 2008 single work film/TV crime

'With their men in jail or dead, the women left behind try to get on with their lives. A rival crime boss tries to undermine Carl Williams and his empire. A young lawyer falls for her client, a convicted killer linked to the Carlton Crew. The police make a major breakthrough in identifying the mystery hitman they know only as Benji.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 8/3/2013)

Australia : Screentime Nine Network , 2008

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      Extent: 13x50min. episodes; one seriesp.

Works about this Work

Guilty of Loving New Law Role Andrew Fenton , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Mail , 3 April 2016; (p. 4)
The Mechanics of Justice Anna Hedigan , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Author , December vol. 47 no. 2 2015; (p. 3-6)
'A new literary take on true crime means renewed audience fascination with the developing entanglement between writer and subject.'
Writers, Producers Brawl over Fat Tony Chip Le Grand , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 20 December 2013;
Fat Man on a Bad-Hair Day Paul Kalina , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 15 August 2013; (p. 5)
When Crime Went Belly Up Ben Pobjie , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 10 August 2013; (p. 43)
Underbelly, True Crime and the Cultural Economy of Infamy Melissa Gregg , Jason Wilson , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Continuum : Journal of Media & Cultural Studies , vol. 24 no. 3 2010; (p. 411 - 427)
'By putting the vocabulary of aspiration in the mouths of criminals, and by situating them in the suburbs, Underbelly suggests that ruthless, murderous competition may not be incompatible with the Australian Dream. Exposing a generation's denial of the criminal elements behind ecstasy's fetishized status, it problematizes celebratory accounts of club culture, and suggests dark externalities for the 'night-time economy' of our inner cities. As well as connecting country, suburb and city in repressed criminality, by virtue of its casting choices at the very least, the series blurs the lines between ordinariness, celebrity and infamy. It is in these unresolved tensions that Underbelly constitutes a televisual history of Australia's present that countervails the official pieties of the ordinary that characterized the Howard years.'(Author's abstract)
To Hell and Back Darren Devlyn , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 8 June 2011; (p. 03)
ABC Rolls Out Big-Gun Drama Michael Idato , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 19 June 2011; (p. 21)
Equity Gong for Rake Michael Idato , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 19 June 2011; (p. 21)
Not as Seen on TV Steve Meacham , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 3 July 2011; (p. 4)
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