Episode 24: Mad Max

Dario is joined on-stage at the Electric Palace by two final year Digital Film students studying at the University of Brighton - Kathryn Bessant and James Calver - to discuss George Miller's 1979 Ozploitation action fest Mad Max. Mel Gibson takes the title role as Max Rockatanski, the fearless cop waging war with kill-crazy bikers who target his family. It is a road-scorching, neo-punk, take-no-prisoners combat set in the lawless Australian outback.Neil and Dario expand on themes from the film and engage in a wider discussion covering topics including the future of the arts in higher education, neoliberal ideology, dystopian cinema, Sean Parker's Screening Room proposal and Louis CK's Horace and Pete.Show Notes:Times Higher article on graduate earningsRequiem for the American Dream - Documentary on Noam ChomskySean Parker's The Screening Room - Daily Beast articleHorace and Pete - Louis CKWTF with Marc Maron - Interview with Louis CKThe Teacher's Soul and the Terrors of Performativity by Stephen J. BallLondon Review of Books article about H.G. Adler's The Wall