This book analyzes how disability, deformity and trauma are central narrative prostheses in the Mad Max franchises' post-apocalyptic desert wasteland, representing both social decline and rejuvenation. The authors detail how disability, deformity and trauma offer key moments of character and audience identification. They argue that despite a shared interest in representations of the body and the individual and social effects of devastating injury, critical trauma and critical disability studies rarely collaborate in the production of new scholarship. This book undertakes a cultural analysis of the Mad Max series of films to argue Mad Max is a potent site in which this collaboration can take place.weiterlesen