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

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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.

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Reglińska-Jemioł, A. (2021). Victim-Warriors and Restorers-Heroines in the Post-Apocalyptic World of Mad Max: Fury Road. Text Matters, 11, 106–118. https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.11.08

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