What is it about?
This paper looks to the visual and narrative elements of the film, Mad Max: Fury Road, to explore a variety of positive representational practices in relation to recent disability studies theories. This approach also takes into consideration theories of masculinity in shaping its argument.
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Why is it important?
This is important because there are few positive representations of disability in mass media that do not tokenize persons with disability. These media objects are a significant part of how people understand disability. Because Mad Max: Fury Road represents a society wherein many people have numerous psychological and/or physical disabilities who are not socially disabled for their disabilities, we believe it provides a useful model to viewers for thinking about disability in society.
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Although no film is perfect in its representational practices, we believe Mad Max: Fury Road demonstrates some of the positive potential of film to represent disability in a different way.
Alvin Primack
University of Pittsburgh
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This page is a summary of: Driving toward disability rhetorics: narrative, crip theory, and eco-ability in Mad Max: Fury Road, Critical Studies in Media Communication, June 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2017.1329540.
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