The Mad Max Effect: Road Warriors in International Exploitation Cinema
The Mad Max Effect provides an in-depth analysis of the Mad Max series, and how it began as an inventive concoction of a number of influences from a range of exploitation genres (including the biker movie, the revenge film, and the car chase cinema of the 1970s), to eventually inspiring a fresh cycle of international low budget 'road warrior' movies that appeared on home video in the 1980s.

The Mad Max Effect is the first detailed academic study of the most famous and celebrated post-apocalypse film series, and examines how a humble Australian action movie came from the cultural margins of exploitation cinema to have a profound impact on the broader media landscape.

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The Mad Max Effect: Road Warriors in International Exploitation Cinema
The Mad Max Effect provides an in-depth analysis of the Mad Max series, and how it began as an inventive concoction of a number of influences from a range of exploitation genres (including the biker movie, the revenge film, and the car chase cinema of the 1970s), to eventually inspiring a fresh cycle of international low budget 'road warrior' movies that appeared on home video in the 1980s.

The Mad Max Effect is the first detailed academic study of the most famous and celebrated post-apocalypse film series, and examines how a humble Australian action movie came from the cultural margins of exploitation cinema to have a profound impact on the broader media landscape.

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The Mad Max Effect: Road Warriors in International Exploitation Cinema

The Mad Max Effect: Road Warriors in International Exploitation Cinema

The Mad Max Effect: Road Warriors in International Exploitation Cinema

The Mad Max Effect: Road Warriors in International Exploitation Cinema

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The Mad Max Effect provides an in-depth analysis of the Mad Max series, and how it began as an inventive concoction of a number of influences from a range of exploitation genres (including the biker movie, the revenge film, and the car chase cinema of the 1970s), to eventually inspiring a fresh cycle of international low budget 'road warrior' movies that appeared on home video in the 1980s.

The Mad Max Effect is the first detailed academic study of the most famous and celebrated post-apocalypse film series, and examines how a humble Australian action movie came from the cultural margins of exploitation cinema to have a profound impact on the broader media landscape.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781501371097
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/29/2022
Series: Global Exploitation Cinemas
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

James Newton is Lecturer in Media Studies and Film at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of The Anarchist Cinema (2019), and a filmmaker. He also runs the Newton Talks podcast.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One: Origins of the Road Warrior

Chapter Two: The Death Race Lineage

Chapter Three: Contextualising Mad Max

Chapter Four: The Politics of Mad Max

Chapter Five: MadMaxploitation! Transnational Road Warriors

Chapter Six: Fury Road and the Imitation of Exploitation

Chapter Seven: Mad Max and the metatext: Fan Engagement and Online Culture

Conclusion: A Few Years From Now

List of Films
Reference List
Index

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