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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga does little to address the franchise’s frustrating attitude towards Australia’s dark past

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par Stephen Morgan, Lecturer in Film and Television, University of Bristol

In former British colonies like Australia, cinema has historically played an important cultural role in legitimising the presence of settlers. And from its relatively modest beginnings in the late 1970s to today’s billboard-hogging blockbuster franchise, the Mad Max series occupies a lofty place in the pantheon of this kind of cinema.

The latest film in the franchise, Furiosa, is the first to shift focus entirely away from the eponymous Max Rockatansky. Instead, it tells the gripping origin story of his chief rival in 2015’s…

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