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• Title:
  Victim-Warriors and Restorers—Heroines in the Post-Apocalyptic World of Mad Max: Fury Road
• Creator:
  Reglińska-Jemioł, Anna
• Contributor:
  University of Gdańsk;
  anna.reglinska-jemiol@ug.edu.pl
• Description:
  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.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2021.12.21;
  2021.11.22
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture;11
• Subject:
  post-apocalyptic utopia;
  Mad Max saga;
  feminism
• Identifier:
  2083-2931;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/40144 ;
  2084-574X;
  10.18778/2083-2931.11.08
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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