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- Closes a significant gap in disability and trauma studies
- Highlights the importance of trauma in shaping experiences of disability
- Adds depth and nuance to disability-based media analysis which has tended to focus on subjective notions of positive/negative representation as opposed to the media’s role in social and cultural critique
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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 climate change.
Drawing on screen production processes, textual analysis and reception studies this book interrogates the role of these representations of disability, trauma, gender and myth to offer an in-depth cultural analysis of the social critiques evident within the fantasies of Mad Max.
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Mick Broderick is Associate Professor of Media Analysis at Murdoch University, Australia. His major publications include The Kubrick Legacy (2019), Reconstructing Strangelove: inside Stanley Kubrick’s ‘nightmare comedy’(2017), editions of the reference work Nuclear Movies (1988, 1991) and as editor or co-editor, Hibakusha Cinema(1996, 1999, 2014), Interrogating Trauma (2010) and Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives (2011).
Katie Ellis is Associate Professor in Internet Studies and Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University, Australia. Her research is located at the intersection of media access and representation. She is the author or editor of 20 books on the topic of disability, the media and popular culture including most recentlyDisability and Digital Television Cultures (2019).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trauma and Disability in Mad Max
Book Subtitle: Beyond the Road Warrior’s Fury
Authors: Mick Broderick, Katie Ellis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19439-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19438-3Published: 12 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19439-0Published: 27 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 109
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Australasian Cinema and TV, Popular Culture , Disability Studies, Media and Communication