- Paperback: 90 pages
- Publisher: Currency Press (1 May 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0868196703
- ISBN-13: 978-0868196701
- Product Dimensions: 18.6 x 13.4 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 165,139 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Max Max" roared onto cinema screens around the world in 1979 and became an instant cult classic as well as establishing Mel Gibson as one of the most watchable stars of the new Australian cinema. 'No other Australian films have influenced world cinema and popular culture as widely and lastingly as George Miller's "Mad Max" movies...'. So writes leading film writer Adrian Martin in this sparkling, new appreciation of the movies that rudely shook up Australian cinema. He 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. Martin compares the three "Mad Max" movies and shares his views on which works best and why. In a chapter dedicated to each film, he looks at their critical reception and their themes, examines Miller's shooting techniques and provides a shot-by-shot analysis of integral scenes. This title contains stills from all three films, complete notes and film credits.
About the Author
Adrian Martin is Melbourne-based. He writes on film and other arts, is a winner of the Australian Film Institute's Byron Kennedy Award (1993) and the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing (1997). He is the author of Phantasms (1984) and Once Upon a Time in America (British Film Institute, 1998) as well as numerous essays in journals including Film Comment, Sight and Sound, Traffic and Senses of Cinema. He is currently film critic for The Age in Melbourne.
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Mad Max Essay,
By Stumm (Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The "Mad Max" Movies (Paperback)
This is a nice little critique of the Mad Max films, describing their place in Australian cinema while examining some of the finer points of how it was filmed.
Its not a bad little read, but hardly an astounding revelation or in-depth analysis into the Making Of. You'll read it. But probably only the once.
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