Victim-Warriors and Restorers-Heroines in the Post-Apocalyptic World of Mad Max: Fury Road

• Authors: Anna Reglińska-Jemioł

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

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post-apocalyptic utopia; Mad Max saga; feminism

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 106-118

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Anna Reglińska-Jemioł

• University of Gdańsk

• https://orcid.org/0000000154718032

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/2083-2931.11.08

Biblioteka Nauki

2032754