Adrian Martin believes that Mad Max is an exploitation movie, Mad Max 2 is an attempt at classicism, and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome is unquestionably George Miller's one and only art film. This lively new appreciation of the Mad Max trilogy offers readers intelligent and proactive writing on three of Australia's most prized films.
Adrian Martin believes that Mad Max is an exploitation movie, Mad Max 2 is an attempt at classicism, and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome is unquestionably George Miller's one and only art film. This lively new appreciation of the Mad Max trilogy offers readers intelligent and proactive writing on three of Australia's most prized films.
According to Martin, no other Australian films have influenced world cinema and popular culture as widely and lastingly as George Miller's Mad Max trilogy.
ADRIAN MARTIN, born in Melbourne, is a film critic for the Age. He is the author of Phantasms and Once Upon a Time in America, and co-editor of Movie Mutations. He has won the Byron Kennedy Award (1993) and the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing (1993). He is co-editor of the Internet film journal Rouge .
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