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Gender: Male
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1 The Tragi-Comedy Down Under Appropriates Cronulla Rather Than Offering Insight Dirk de Bruyn , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 29 July 2016;
— Review of Down Under Abe Forsythe , 2015 single work film/TV 'Abe Forsythe’s black comedy Down Under is set the day after the 2005 Christmas Cronulla Riots and undertakes a re-processing of these events. It starts with newsreel footage that brings back this raw, racist national wound of running mob fights, the derisive calls, the cars, the drinking, the police batons, the flags and the arrests. ...'
1 Joe Cinque’s Consolation : Violence, Delusion and the Question of Guilt Dirk de Bruyn , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 11 October 2016;
— Review of Joe Cinque's Consolation : A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law Sotiris Dounoukos , Matt Rubinstein , 2016 single work film/TV 'If you want your cinema neatly wrapped with a bow on top by the time you walk out of the theatre, then Sotiris Dounoukos’s Joe Cinque’s Consolation (2016) is not for you. The events that this film portrays will keep working on you, testing your thinking on truth and fantasy, probing where you sit ethically in relation to mental illness, manslaughter, and its complicit witnessing. ...'
1 y separately published work icon OBlad Cornelis Vleeskens , Dirk de Bruyn , Cape Paterson : Earthdance , 1999 9022448 1999 selected work poetry
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