Trauma and Disability in Mad Max: Beyond the Road Warrior's Fury

by Katie Ellis and Mick Broderick

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030194388
• ISBN13: 9783030194383
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 109 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"