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Despite post-dating the third film in the series by some thirty years, this instalment is said to fit in the timeline somewhere between films one and two.
Max Rockatansky, trapped in the citadel of warlord Immortan Joe, crosses paths with Imperator Furiosa, who is on a mission to free Joe's enslaved 'brides' and take them to the Green Place, the Land of Many Mothers.
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Released in cinemas on 30 April 2017 in what Miller called the 'black and chrome edition': a black-and-white print of the film: this version was released on Blu-ray on 15 May 2017.
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Writing Disability in Australia
Type of disability Missing forearm (occasional prosthetic use). Type of character Primary. Point of view Third person. -
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This work has been affiliated with the Preppers and Survivalism project due to its relationship to either prepping or prepper-inflected survivalism more generally, and contains one or more of the following:
1. A strong belief in some imminent threat
2. Taking active steps to prepare for that perceived threat- A range of activities not necessarily associated with ‘prepping’ take on new significance, when they are undertaken with the express purpose of preparing for and/or surviving perceived threats, e.g., gardening, abseiling.
- The plausibility of the threat, and the relative “reasonable-ness” of the response, don’t affect this definition. E.g., if someone is worried about climate change and climate disasters, and they respond by moving from a riverbank location in Cairns, or to a highland region of New Zealand, this makes them a prepper. If someone else is worried about brainwashing rays from outer space, and they respond by making a tinfoil hat, that makes them a prepper.
3. A character or characters (or text) who self-identify as a ‘prepper’, or some synonymous/modified term: ‘financial preppers’, ‘weekend preppers’, ‘fitness preppers’, etc.
As a tier two work, this text has been identified as key to prepping in a broader, more conceptual relationship. These texts have been classified as ‘key’ prepper-adjacent texts that are important to prepping, even if they themselves are not about prepping or do not include preppers. These texts have been identified in the database through various means such as interviews with preppers, scholarship on preppers, and online prepper forums.
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Complicating Feature : Gender and Disability in Mad Max: Fury Road
2023
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— Appears in: Antipodes , vol. 36 no. 1 2023; (p. 49-63)'While scholarly discussion of disability in Australian narrative has focused on disability as a representational device, used to reinforce a hypermasculine and able-national identity, this article draws on Ato Quayson's aesthetic nervousness to establish patterns of cultural critique throughout Mad Max: Fury Road, layered on and through capitalism and gender representation. Strong female protagonists have been a recurring character in action genres since the 1980s yet have often been absent in Australian national cinema. There is barely a scene in Fury Road that does not include a disabled body and/or a woman. Furiosa's counterpart is not Max but Immortan Joe. Both bodies are impaired and use prosthesis. However, the role of Joe's prosthesis is to hide his decaying body, while the role of Furiosa's seems only to exist in Joe's world. Throughout this article, the authors invoke critical disability studies to argue that disability and gender are central to the aesthetic of Fury Road and to conveying its sociopolitical messages. In an ensemble filled with women, Furiosa's distinguishing feature is no longer her gender but her disability.' (Publication abstract)
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When Max Met Furiosa : The Yearslong Process of Casting Mad Max : Fury Road Involved Dozens of Future Stars — and Just as Many What-ifs
2022
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— Appears in: Vulture , 9 February 2022; - y Blood, Sweat and Chrome : The Wild and True Story of Mad Max : Fury Road New York (City) : William Morrow , 2022 23790345 2022 multi chapter work criticism
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Victim-Warriors and Restorers—Heroines in the Post-Apocalyptic World of Mad Max : Fury Road
2021
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— Appears in: Text Matters : A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture , no. 11 2021; (p. 106-118)'The article discusses the evolving image of female characters in the Mad Max saga directed by George Miller, focusing on Furiosa’s rebellion in the last film—Mad Max: Fury Road. Interestingly, studying Miller’s post-apocalyptic action films, we can observe the evolution of this post-apocalyptic vision from the male-dominated world with civilization collapsing into chaotic violence visualized in the previous series to a more hopeful future created by women in the last part of the saga: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). We observe female heroes: the vengeful Furiosa, the protector of oppressed girls and sex slaves, the women of the separatist clan, and the wives of the warlord, who bring down the tyranny and create a new “green place.” It is worth emphasizing that the plot casts female solidarity in the central heroic role. In fact, the Mad Max saga emerges as a piece of socially engaged cinema preoccupied with the cultural context of gender discourse. Noticeably, media commentators, scholars and activists have suggested that Fury Road is a feminist film.' (Publication abstract)
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Our Enduring Love of Mad Max’s Australian Outback : An Anarchic Wasteland of Sado-masochistic Punk Villains and Ocker Clowns
2021
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 27 April 2021;
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Nine Australian Movies to Watch in 2015
2015
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 6 January 2015;
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Taking on the Ultimate Warrior
2015
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 May 2015; (p. 6-7)
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They're Back
2015
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— Appears in: The Australian , 9-10 May 2015; (p. 8)
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We’re Just Mad about Charlize
2015
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 May 2015;
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Lone Warrior Returns to the End of the World
2015
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— Appears in: The Age , 12 May 2015; (p. 12)
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In the Eye of the Camper Holder
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— Appears in: The Age , 31 May 2012; (p. 16) -
Reel Time
2012
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— Appears in: The Australian , 20 June 2012; (p. 17) -
Mad Max : Fury Road Screeches into Action
2012
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— Appears in: The Australian , 15 August 2012; (p. 15) -
Studio Chiefs Wary of Max
2012
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— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 20 October 2012; (p. 3) -
Back to the Bush to Find a Blockbuster
2013
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10 August 2013; (p. 36)
Awards
- 2016 nominated Golden Globe Awards (USA) — Best Motion Picture - Drama
- 2016 nominated Academy Awards — Best Director
- 2016 nominated Academy Awards — Best Picture
- 2016 nominated Golden Globe Awards (USA) — Best Director - Motion Picture
- 2016 winner AFCA Film Awards — Best Director