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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Suburban Mayhem
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'Can a girl really get everything she wants? Welcome to the world of Katrina, a 19-year-old mum who believes she can. Katrina inhabits a world of petty crime, manicures and fast cars - and she'll stop at nothing to get what she wants, even murder.'

Source: Screen Australia.

Notes

  • The trailer for this film is available to view via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zab3TRjlxs (Sighted: 17/10/2012)

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First known date: 2006

Works about this Work

Stranded in Suburbia : Women’s Violence in Australian Cinema Janice Loreck , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , May no. 64 2019;

Australian cinema has a long history of depicting violent men: from Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971), Mad Dog Morgan (Philippe Mora, 1976) and Mad Max (George Miller, 1979) in the 1970s, Romper Stomper (Geoffrey Wright, 1992), Blackrock (Steven Vidler, 1997) and The Boys (Rowan Woods, 1998) in the 1990s, to Wolf Creek (Greg McLean, 2005) and Snowtown (Justin Kurzel, 2011) in the 2000s. Throughout this period, Australian cinema has paid exclusive attention to men’s violence: vigilantes, petty criminals and troubled young men in the suburbs. Felicity Holland and Jane O’Sullivan declare that these ‘lethal larrikin’ films are in discussion with concepts of Australian masculinity, ‘questioning and subverting a number of almost iconic assumptions about power, powerlessness, and violence in Australian masculine culture’ (79). In recent years, however, there has been a small but impactful cluster of films that show women acting violently, too. Suburban Mayhem (Paul Goldman, 2006), Animal Kingdom (David Michôd, 2011) and Hounds of Love (Ben Young, 2016) all contain female characters who exhibit intensely violent behaviour, committing (or conspiring to commit) acts of homicide and murder. While critics have examined men’s brutality extensively, Australian women’s aggression has not been considered in the same way (Butterss; Heller-Nicholas; Holland and O’Sullivan; O’Brien; Villella). Female violence in Australian cinema is a new and unanswered question. (Introduction)

Great Aussie Female Movie Characters Erin Free , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 8 March 2019;
The 100 Best Australian Films of the New Millenium Erin Free , Dov Kornits , Travis Johnson , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 22 September 2016;
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)
Hell on Heels Sandra Hall , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 October 2006; (p. 15)

— Review of Suburban Mayhem Alice Bell , 2006 single work film/TV
Kat Relishes the Cream David Stratton , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28-29 October 2006; (p. 23)

— Review of Suburban Mayhem Alice Bell , 2006 single work film/TV
Blood in the Burbs Sandy George , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 October 2006; (p. 4-5)
Murder On the Big Screen But Is It Fiction? Garry Maddox , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 October 2006; (p. 3)
The Murderous State : The Naturalisation of Violence and Exclusion in The Films of Neoliberal Australia Jon Stratton , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cultural Studies Review , vol. 15 no. 1 2009; (p. 11-32)
A Taxidermia Indeed : Stuffed to the Gills at MIFF Although Still a Little Miffed at Some Stuff Cerise Howard , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , October - December no. 41 2006;
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)
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