Furious Feminisms
Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road
Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill, and Barbara Gurr
MANIFOLD EDITION
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.
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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?
$10.00 paper ISBN 978-1-5179-0919-2
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70 pages, 2 b&w photos, 5 x 7
Alexis L. Boylan is associate professor in the art and art history department and the Africana Studies Institute at University of Connecticut.