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Andrew Nette

Andrew Nette

Andrew Nette is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. In addition to two crime novels, Ghost Money and Gunshine State, he is co-editor of Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980, and Sticking it to the Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1956 to 1980, both published by PM Press. His writing on film, books and culture has appeared in a variety of print and on-line publications. You can find him on Twitter at @Pulpcurry.

Macbeth

ABR Arts • 30 September 2015
It has been said we get the versions of Shakespeare that mirror our times. If so, it is chilling to speculate what Australian director Justin Kurzel’s take on Macbeth, the story of a loyal warrior who succumbs to the temptation to commit regicide, says about the current state of the world. Macbeth, Shakespeare’s darkest and bloodiest tale, has been adapted for the screen many times. In the pr ... (read more)

David Bowie Is (Australian Centre for the Moving Image)

ABR Arts • 23 July 2015
You don’t have to be an avid David Bowie fan to be impressed by the breadth and detail of David Bowie Is, currently showing at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne. Imported from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), where it was their most successful show to date, it examines the fifty-year career of one of the most successful solo performers in rock history ... (read more)

Andrew Nette reviews 'Transmission: Legacies of the Television Age' (NGV)

ABR Arts • 15 June 2015
The April 2015 issue of Australian Book Review contained a lengthy essay by James McNamara questioning whether or not we are living in a golden age of television. It is a topic receiving much attention from critics and cultural commentators, not only because of technological and behavioural changes in how we watch television, but because of the growing sophistication of some of its output and the ... (read more)

Andrew Nette reviews 'Before I Sleep' by Ray Whitrod

May 2015, no. 371 • 30 April 2015
The cover of Ray Whitrod’s re-released autobiography, Before I Sleep: My Life Fighting Crime and Corruption, strongly hints at a hard-hitting true crime memoir, dominated by the author’s troubled period as Queensland police commissioner from 1970 to 1976, when, as the blurb suggests, the state was ‘a haven for crooks from both sides of the law’. This impression is reinforced by a foreword ... (read more)
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