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  title info:
    title: Trauma and Disability in Mad Max
    sub title: Beyond the Road Warrior's Fury
  name:
    name part: Broderick, Mick.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Ellis, Katie.
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 109 p. 20 illus. online resource.
  abstract: "The Mad Max films have been understood from numerous perspectives, from auteurism to national cinema to action adventure to gender to science fiction to dystopia. Mick Broderick and Katie Ellis have surpassed that literature with this exciting and profound work. Trauma and Disability is more than a new optic through which to view a storied series; it is a challenge to film studies and cultural analysis more broadly to wake up, smell the burning guzzoline, and rethink normativity." - Professor Toby Miller, Loughborough University London, UK "Mad Max is more relevant today than ever, with climate change destroying the Earth and many despot leaders worldwide. Broderick and Ellis critique the imagery of trauma within the films and focus attention on the many narratives involving disabled characters. Their explication of representations of bodies, disabled and nondisabled, makes a significant contribution to our understanding of multiple Mad Max films, specifically, and popular culture, generally." - Professor Beth Haller, Towson University, USA This book explores the inter-relationship of disability and trauma in the Mad Max films (1979-2015). George Miller's long-running series is replete with narratives and imagery of trauma, both physical and emotional, along with major and minor characters who are prominently disabled. The Mad Max movies foreground representations of the body - in devastating injury and its lasting effects - and in the broader social and historical contexts of trauma, disability, gender and myth. Over the franchise's four-decade span significant social and cultural change has occurred globally. Many of the images of disability and trauma central to Max's post-apocalyptic wasteland can be seen to represent these societal shifts, incorporating both decline and rejuvenation. These shifts include concerns with social, economic and political disintegration under late capitalism, projections of survival after nuclear war, and the impact of anthropogenic …
  table of contents: Introduction -- 1. Trauma -- 2. Disability -- 3.Gender -- 4. Mythology -- 5. Fandom -- Conclusion.
  note: by Mick Broderick, Katie Ellis.
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Australasia
  subject:
    topic: Popular Culture
  subject:
    topic: People with disabilities
  subject:
    topic: Communication
  subject:
    topic: Australasian Cinema and TV
  subject:
    topic: Popular Culture
  subject:
    topic: Disability Studies
  subject:
    topic: Media and Communication
  classification: PN1993-1999
  classification: 791.4099
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      title: Springer eBooks
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