Dr Deb Verhoeven is a writer, broadcaster, film critic, commentator and lecturer. Between 2000 and 2002 she was CEO of the Australian Film Institute. She is currently Associate Professor of Screen Studies in the School of Applied Communication at RMIT, where she also manages the AFI Research Collection.

'Truthfully I will never see these films in quite the same way again... it is in the best sense a strangely compelling and unsettling book.' -Professor Tom O'Regan, University of Queensland

Dr Deb Verhoeven is a writer, broadcaster, film critic, commentator and lecturer. Between 2000 and 2002 she was CEO of the Australian Film Institute. She is currently Associate Professor of Screen Studies in the School of Applied Communication at RMIT, where she also manages the AFI Research Collection.

'Truthfully I will never see these films in quite the same way again... it is in the best sense a strangely compelling and unsettling book.' -Professor Tom O'Regan, University of Queensland

Dr Deb Verhoeven is a writer, broadcaster, film critic, commentator and lecturer. Between 2000 and 2002 she was CEO of the Australian Film Institute. She is currently Associate Professor of Screen Studies in the School of Applied Communication at RMIT, where she also manages the AFI Research Collection.

'Truthfully I will never see these films in quite the same way again... it is in the best sense a strangely compelling and unsettling book.' -Professor Tom O'Regan, University of Queensland