Furious Feminisms: Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road (Forerunners: Ideas First)

by Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill, and Barbara Gurr

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A provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative power

While both fans and foes point to Mad Max: Fury Road’s feminist credentials, Furious Feminisms asks: is there really anything feminist or radical happening on the screen? The four authors—from backgrounds in art history, American literature, disability studies, and sociology—ask what is possible, desirable, or damaging in theorizing feminism in the contested landscape of the twenty-first century. Can we find beauty in the Anthropocene? Can power be wrested from a violent system without employing and perpetuating violence? 

This experiment in collaborative criticism weaves multiple threads of dialogue together to offer a fresh perspective on our current cultural moment. 

Forerunners: Ideas First
Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

  • ISBN10 1517909198
  • ISBN13 9781517909192
  • Publish Date 21 January 2020
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Minnesota Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 82
  • Language English