Posts Tagged ‘ Mad Max ’

The Road Western: The Mad Max Series and its Latest Installment, Fury Road

June 19, 2015
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The Road Western: The <i>Mad Max</i> Series and its Latest Installment, <i>Fury Road</i>

The Mad Max series continues to be a cult classic, in part because it re-appropriates the western and the road movie and redeploys them to create an environmentally catastrophic vision of a future that we could create.
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Road to Nowhere: Mad Max: Fury Road and the Unstoppable Safe Transgressions of Cult Cinema

June 11, 2015
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Road to Nowhere: <i>Mad Max: Fury Road</i> and the Unstoppable Safe Transgressions of Cult Cinema

Against orthodox thought that cult films earn their status through lengthy reception trajectories, Mad Max: Fury Road is always already a cult film.
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Getting Beyond the Thunderdome: David Brooks’ Fantastical “Riders on the Storm”

April 27, 2010
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Getting Beyond the Thunderdome: David Brooks’ Fantastical “Riders on the Storm”

Are people more open to new ideas when they get their daily news through the Internet or do they tend to use today's historically unparalleled access to support what they already think?
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