"What If We Were Savage?" Mad Max Transmedia as Speculative Anthropology
Through a neoteric methodology (speculative ethnography), we analyze the trans-media worldbuilding of the Mad Max franchise as a form of "Ozploitation." This post-apocalyptic rural sci-fi series exploits culturally specific fears generated from Australia's colonial past. Mad Max is a...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
2023
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2023, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-35 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Australia
/ Mad Max
/ Imaginary places
/ Postapokalypse (Motif)
/ Insanity
/ Colonialism
/ Indigenous peoples
/ Culture
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IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion KBS Australia; Oceania NCC Social ethics TK Recent history ZB Sociology ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
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Summary: | Through a neoteric methodology (speculative ethnography), we analyze the trans-media worldbuilding of the Mad Max franchise as a form of "Ozploitation." This post-apocalyptic rural sci-fi series exploits culturally specific fears generated from Australia's colonial past. Mad Max is a popular imagining of the Australian eschaton and its aftermath, a collective national nightmare where near-future Australia—"Maxtralia"—plummets into the savagery invented by generations of colonialist discourse. "Maximum madness," the retrogressive technological, religious, and socioeconomic wasteland culture for which the series is known, signifies a Western reproach to indigeneity and locative culture, perpetuating attitudes of voyeuristic excitement towards primitivism. |
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ISSN: | 1703-289X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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