MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME

MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME. George Miller and George Ogilvie, dir. Australia: Kennedy Miller Productions (prod.) / Warner Brothers (US release), 1985. George Miller, prod. and co-author of script. Mel Gibson and Tina Turner, stars.

Third in the series (others: MAD MAX and MAD MAX 2). Offers a critique of the virtues and limitations of technological civilization, seen from the perspective of a post-holocaust world in which a barter economy is progressive and in which the relationship between energy and political power is very direct. Required viewing for critics who look for contemporary use of "archetypes." A Warner paperback is advertised. See in this Category, WARLORDS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, MONONOKE HIME, and MAD MAX: FURY ROAD.