The Mad Max Effect Road Warriors in International Exploitation Cinema

<i>The Mad Max Effect</i> provides an in-depth analysis of the <i>Mad </i><i>Max</i> series, and how it began as an inventive concoction ofa number of influences from a range of exploitation genres (including the biker movie, the revenge film, and the car chasecinema of the 1970s), to eventually inspiring a fresh cycle of international low budget ¿road warrior¿ movies that appeared on home video in the 1980s.<i>The Mad Max Effect</i> is the first detailed academic study of the most famous and celebrated post-apocalypse film series, andexamines how a humble Australian action movie came from the cultural margins of exploitation cinema to have a profound impact on the broader media landscape.