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Mad Max (film), the Glossary

Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller, who co-wrote the screenplay with James McCausland, based on a story by Miller and Byron Kennedy.^[1]

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1970s road movies
1970s science fiction action films
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Australian exploitation films
Australian films about revenge
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Films directed by George Miller
Films scored by Brian May (composer)
Films with screenplays by George Miller
Kennedy Miller Mitchell films
Mad Max films
Peak oil films

AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role is an award in the annual Australian Film Institute Awards.

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AACTA Award for Best Direction

The AACTA Award for Best Direction is an award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television." The award is presented at the annual AACTA Awards, which hand out accolades for achievements in feature film, television, documentaries and short films.

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AACTA Award for Best Editing

The AACTA Award for Best Editing is an award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television." The award is presented at the annual AACTA Awards, which hand out accolades for achievements in feature film, television, documentaries and short films.

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AACTA Award for Best Film

The AACTA Award for Best Film is an award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) at the annual AACTA Awards, which hand out accolades for achievements in feature film, television, documentaries, and short films.

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AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score

The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Original Music Score is an award in the annual Australian Film Institute Awards.

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AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

The AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay is an award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), for an Australian screenplay "written directly and originally for the screen".

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AACTA Award for Best Sound

The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Achievement in Sound is an award awarded yearly by the Australian Film Institute for excellence in sound editing, The award was first distributed in 1977 with the first winner being William Anderson for the film Don's Party.

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AACTA Awards

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, known as the AACTA Awards, are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA).

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Abbeville Publishing Group

Abbeville Publishing Group is an independent book publishing company specializing in fine art and illustrated books.

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Action film

The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work.

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Adelaide

Adelaide (Tarntanya) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym Adelaidean is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide.

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Amanda Muggleton

Amanda Lillian Muggleton (born 12 October 1951) is an English Australian theatre, television and film actress.

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American International Pictures

American International Pictures LLC (AIP or American International Productions) is an American film production company owned by Amazon MGM Studios.

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Anamorphic widescreen

Anamorphic widescreen (also called full-height anamorphic or FHA) is a process by which a comparatively wide widescreen image is horizontally compressed to fit into a storage medium (photographic film or MPEG-2 standard-definition frame, for example) with a narrower aspect ratio, reducing the horizontal resolution of the image while keeping its full original vertical resolution.

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Assistant director

The role of an assistant director on a film includes tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule, arranging logistics, preparing daily call sheets, checking cast and crew, and maintaining order on the set.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian English vocabulary

Australian English is a major variety of the English language spoken throughout Australia.

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Australian Film Institute

The Australian Film Institute (AFI) was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Australian film industry.

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Australian New Wave

The Australian New Wave (also known as the Australian Film Revival, Australian Film Renaissance, or New Australian Cinema) was an era of resurgence in worldwide popularity of Australian cinema, particularly in the United States.

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Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival

The Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival (Festival international du film fantastique d'Avoriaz) was a film festival held in the French resort of Avoriaz between 1973 and 1993.

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Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery

A Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae; MBBS, also abbreviated as BM BS, MB ChB, MB BCh, or MB BChir) is a medical degree granted by medical schools or universities in countries that adhere to the United Kingdom's higher education tradition.

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Ballarat

Ballarat (balla arat) is a city in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia.

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Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist.

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Bernard Herrmann

Bernard Herrmann (born Maximillian Herman; June 29, 1911December 24, 1975) was an American composer and conductor best known for his work in composing for films.

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Berserker

In the Old Norse written corpus, berserkers (berserkir) were those who were said to have fought in a trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the modern English word berserk (meaning 'furiously violent or out of control').

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Bill Miller (film producer)

Bill Miller (born 1963) is a Sydney-based feature film producer.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format.

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Brian May

Sir Brian Harold May (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, animal rights activist and astrophysicist.

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Brian May (Australian composer)

Brian May (28 July 1934 – 25 April 1997) was an Australian film composer and conductor who was a prominent figure during the Australian New Wave.

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Brian Trenchard-Smith

Brian Medwin Trenchard-Smith (born 1946) is an English-Australian filmmaker and author, known for his idiosyncratic and satirical low-budget genre films.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content, etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian and film director.

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Byron Kennedy

Byron Eric Kennedy (18 August 1949 – 17 July 1983) was an Australian film producer known for co-creating the Mad Max series of films with George Miller.

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Cars of the Stars Motor Museum

The Cars of the Stars Motor Museum was in the English town of Keswick, Cumbria, and owned a collection of celebrity television and film vehicles.

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Charles Manson

Charles Milles Manson (November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California, in the late 1960s.

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Chevrolet Bel Air

The Chevrolet Bel Air is a full-size car produced by Chevrolet for the 1950–1981 model years.

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Clifford Hayes

Clifford Hayes (born 13 August 1951) is a former Australian politician.

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Clunes, Victoria

Clunes is a town in Victoria, Australia, 36 kilometres north of Ballarat, in the Shire of Hepburn.

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Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.

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Coma

A coma is a deep state of prolonged unconsciousness in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound, lacks a normal wake-sleep cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Danse Macabre (book)

Danse Macabre is a 1981 non-fiction book by Stephen King, about horror fiction in print, TV, radio, film and comics, and the influence of contemporary societal fears and anxieties on the genre.

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David Eggby

David Eggby, A.C.S. (born 1950) is an English-born Australian cinematographer.

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Dimboola (1979 film)

Dimboola is a 1979 Australian independent film directed by John Duigan about a country wedding reception. Mad Max (film) and Dimboola (1979 film) are 1979 independent films and Australian independent films.

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Drum brake

A drum brake is a brake that uses friction caused by a set of shoes or pads that press outward against a rotating bowl-shaped part called a brake drum.

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Dystopia

A dystopia, also called a cacotopia or anti-utopia, is a community or society that is extremely bad or frightening.

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Ecocide

Ecocide (from Greek oikos "home" and Latin cadere "to kill") is the destruction of the environment by humans.

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Emergency department

An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of patients who present without prior appointment; either by their own means or by that of an ambulance.

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Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website and their mobile app.

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Far Out (website)

Far Out is a British online culture website, headquartered in London and founded in 2010.

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Film festival

A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region.

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Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film.

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Filming permit

Filming permits are permits issued by governments to allow the filming of motion pictures.

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Filmways

Filmways, Inc. (also known as Filmways Pictures and Filmways Television) was a television and film production company founded by American film executive Martin Ransohoff and Edwin Kasper in 1952.

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Ford 335 engine

The Ford 335 engine family was a group of engines built by the Ford Motor Company between 1969 and 1982.

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Ford Falcon (Australia)

The Ford Falcon is a full-size car that was manufactured by Ford Australia from 1960 to 2016.

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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a 2024 post-apocalyptic action film directed and produced by George Miller, who wrote the screenplay with Nico Lathouris. Mad Max (film) and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga are Australian films about revenge, films directed by George Miller, films set in Australia, films with screenplays by George Miller, Kennedy Miller Mitchell films and mad Max films.

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Fuse (explosives)

In an explosive, pyrotechnic device, or military munition, a fuse (or fuze) is the part of the device that initiates function.

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Geelong

Geelong (Wathawurrung: Djilang/Djalang) is a port city in Victoria, Australia, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, about southwest of Melbourne.

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Geoff Parry

Geoff Parry (born 1953) is an Australian former actor.

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George Miller (filmmaker)

George Miller (born 3 March 1945) is an Australian filmmaker.

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Grant Page

Grantley John Page (August 6, 1939 – 14 March 2024) was an Australian stuntman who worked mostly during the 1970s and 1980s.

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Guerrilla filmmaking

Guerrilla filmmaking refers to a form of independent filmmaking characterized by ultra-low micro budgets, skeleton crews, and limited props using whatever resources, locations and equipment is available.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Harold Lloyd

Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films.

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Herman J. Mankiewicz

Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953) was an American screenwriter who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941).

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Holden Monaro

The Holden Monaro is a car that was manufactured by General Motors' Australian division Holden.

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Hot rod

Hot rods are typically American cars that might be old, classic, or modern and that have been rebuilt or modified with large engines optimized for speed and acceleration.

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Hugh Keays-Byrne

Hugh Keays-Byrne (18 May 1947 – 2 December 2020) was a British-Australian actor.

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IndieWire

IndieWire is a film industry and film criticism website that was established in 1996.

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Intellectual disability

Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability (in the United Kingdom) and formerly mental retardation (in the United States),Rosa's Law, Pub.

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Intensive care unit

An intensive care unit (ICU), also known as an intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit (ITU) or critical care unit (CCU), is a special department of a hospital or health care facility that provides intensive care medicine.

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James Healey (actor)

James Patrick Healey (born 13 January 1951 in County Galway, Republic of Ireland) is an Irish-born Australian actor.

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Joanne Samuel

Joanne Samuel is an Australian film and television actress, who is best known for her role as the screen wife of Mel Gibson's title character in the 1979 film Mad Max.

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Jonathan Hardy

Jonathan Hardy (20 September 1940 – 30 July 2012) was a New Zealand-Australian film and television actor, writer and director.

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Judy Davis

Judith Davis (born 23 April 1955) is an Australian actress.

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Kawasaki Kz1000

The Kawasaki Kz1000 or Z1000 is a motorcycle made in Japan by Kawasaki, manufacturing commenced in September 1976 for the 1977 model year.

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Kennedy Miller Mitchell

Kennedy Miller Mitchell (known before 2009 as Kennedy Miller) is an Australian film, television and video game production house in Potts Point, Sydney, that has been producing television and film since 1978.

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Kino Lorber

Kino Lorber is an international film distribution company based in New York City.

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Limited theatrical release

Limited theatrical release is a film distribution strategy of releasing a new film in a few theaters across a country, typically art house theaters in major metropolitan markets.

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Little River Band

Little River Band (LRB) are a rock band formed in Melbourne, Australia, in March 1975.

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Little River, Victoria

Little River is a town in Victoria, Australia, approximately south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Greater Geelong and Wyndham local government areas.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Lulu Pinkus

Lulu Pinkus is an Australian screenwriter, producer, stage, film and television actress.

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Mad Max

Mad Max is an Australian media franchise created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy.

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Mad Max 2

Mad Max 2 (released as The Road Warrior in the United States) is a 1981 Australian post-apocalyptic dystopian action film directed by George Miller, who co-wrote it with Terry Hayes and Brian Hannant. Mad Max (film) and Mad Max 2 are Australian independent films, Australian road movies, Australian science fiction action films, dystopian films, films about automobiles, films directed by George Miller, films scored by Brian May (composer), films set in Australia, films with screenplays by George Miller, Kennedy Miller Mitchell films, mad Max films and Peak oil films.

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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, commonly known as Mad Max 3, is a 1985 Australian post-apocalyptic dystopian action film directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie and written by Terry Hayes and Miller. Mad Max (film) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome are Australian independent films, Australian science fiction action films, dystopian films, films about automobiles, films directed by George Miller, films set in Australia, films with screenplays by George Miller, Kennedy Miller Mitchell films, mad Max films and Peak oil films.

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Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max: Fury Road is a 2015 Australian post-apocalyptic action film co-written, co-produced, and directed by George Miller. Mad Max (film) and Mad Max: Fury Road are Australian films about revenge, Australian road movies, Australian science fiction action films, films about automobiles, films directed by George Miller, films with screenplays by George Miller, Kennedy Miller Mitchell films and mad Max films.

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Max Rockatansky

Max Rockatansky is the title character and antihero protagonist of the Australian post-apocalyptic action film series Mad Max.

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Mazda Bongo

The, also known as Mazda E-Series, and the Ford Econovan, is a cabover van and pickup truck manufactured by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Mazda since 1966.

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Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler.

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Mel Gibson

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an American actor and film director.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.

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MGM Home Entertainment

MGM Home Entertainment LLC (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment, d/b/a MGM Home Entertainment and formerly known as MGM Home Video, MGM/CBS Home Video and MGM/UA Home Video) is the home entertainment distribution arm of the American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

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Miami

Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.

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National Institute of Dramatic Art

The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is an Australian educational institution for the performing arts based in the South-Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nico Lathouris

Nico Lathouris (born 1944) is an Australian-born actor and writer of Greek descent.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Outlaw motorcycle club

An outlaw motorcycle club, known colloquially as a bikie gang (in Australia), biker gang or motorcycle gang, is a motorcycle subculture generally centered on the use of cruiser motorcycles, particularly Harley-Davidsons and choppers, and a set of ideals that purport to celebrate freedom, nonconformity to mainstream culture, and loyalty to the biker group.

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Patrick (1978 film)

Patrick is a 1978 Australian science fiction horror film directed by Richard Franklin and written by Everett De Roche. Mad Max (film) and Patrick (1978 film) are films scored by Brian May (composer) and films shot in Melbourne.

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Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991.

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Peak oil

Peak oil is the theorized point in time when the maximum rate of global oil production will occur, after which oil production will begin an irreversible decline.

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Peter Weir

Peter Lindsay Weir (born 21 August 1944) is an Australian retired film director.

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Phillip Adams (writer)

Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams, (born 12 July 1939) is an Australian humanist, social commentator, ex-broadcaster, public intellectual and farmer.

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Point Wilson, Victoria

Point Wilson is a locality located on the northern shores of Corio Bay, Victoria.

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Police commissioner

A police commissioner is the head of a police department, responsible for overseeing its operations and ensuring the effective enforcement of laws and maintenance of public order.

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Police radio

Police radio is a radio system used by police and other law enforcement agencies to communicate with one another.

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Port Townsend, Washington

Port Townsend is a city on the Quimper Peninsula in Jefferson County, Washington, United States.

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Principal photography

Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production.

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Pursuit Special

The Pursuit Special, also referred to as the Last of the V8 Interceptors, is the iconic black GT Falcon muscle car featuring a distinctive supercharger driven by the title character Mad Max during much of the Mad Max franchise, where it appears in Mad Max, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the canon comic book prequel, as well as both video games.

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Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970 by Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), later joined by John Deacon (bass).

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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Raising Kane

"Raising Kane" is a 1971 book-length essay by American film critic Pauline Kael, in which she revived controversy over the authorship of the screenplay for the 1941 film Citizen Kane.

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Reg Evans

Reginald Evans (27 March 1928 – 7 February 2009) was a British-born actor active in Australian radio, theatre, television and cinema from the 1960s, after having started his career in his native England.

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Review aggregator

A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews and ratings of products and services such as films, books, video games, music, software, hardware, and cars.

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Roadshow Entertainment

Roadshow Entertainment (formerly known as Roadshow Home Video from 1982–1993) is an Australian home video, production and distribution company that is a division of Village Roadshow (formerly Roadshow Home Video and Roadshow Entertainment) that distributes films in Australia and New Zealand.

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Roger Savage

Roger Savage is an Australian sound engineer who was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Moulin Rouge!.

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Roger Ward

Roger Ward (born 1936) is an Australian actor who has had a considerable career in film and television, noted for "tough guy" roles in which he often did his own stunts.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.

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Sam Peckinpah

David Samuel Peckinpah (February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American film director and screenwriter.

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Sawed-off shotgun

A sawed-off shotgun (also called a scattergun, sawn-off shotgun, short-barrelled shotgun, shorty, or boom stick) is a type of shotgun with a shorter gun barrel—typically under —and often a pistol grip instead of a longer shoulder stock.

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Screenwriter

A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, and video games, are based.

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Semi-trailer truck

A semi-trailer truck (also known by a wide variety of other terms - see below) is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight.

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Sheila Florance

Sheila Mary Florance (24 July 1916 – 12 October 1991) was an Australian theatre, television and film actress.

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Short film

A short film is a film with a low running time.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue).

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Slaughterhouse

In livestock agriculture and the meat industry, a slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir, is a facility where livestock animals are slaughtered to provide food.

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SMPTE timecode

SMPTE timecode is a set of cooperating standards to label individual frames of video or film with a timecode.

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SnagFilms

SnagFilms was a website that offered advertising-supported documentary and independent films.

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Social commentary is the act of using rhetorical means to provide commentary on social, cultural, political, or economic issues in a society.

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Societal collapse

Societal collapse (also known as civilizational collapse or systems collapse) is the fall of a complex human society characterized by the loss of cultural identity and of social complexity as an adaptive system, the downfall of government, and the rise of violence.

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Sound editor (filmmaking)

A sound editor is a creative professional responsible for selecting and assembling sound recordings in preparation for the final sound mixing or mastering of a television program, motion picture, video game, or any production involving recorded or synthetic sound.

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A spin-off or spinoff is any narrative work derived from an already existing work that focuses on different aspects from the original work.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author.

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Steve Bisley

Steve Bisley (born 26 December 1951) is an Australian writer, film and television actor.

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Stone (1974 film)

Stone is a 1974 Australian outlaw biker film written, directed and produced by Sandy Harbutt. Mad Max (film) and Stone (1974 film) are Australian independent films.

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Summer City

Summer City (also known as Coast of Terror) is a 1977 Australian drama thriller film, filmed in Newcastle, Australia.

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Supercharger

In an internal combustion engine, a supercharger compresses the intake gas, forcing more air into the engine in order to produce more power for a given displacement.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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The Australian

The Australian, with its Saturday edition The Weekend Australian, is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.

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The Blair Witch Project

The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American supernatural horror film written, directed, and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez.

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The Bulletin (Australian periodical)

The Bulletin was an Australian weekly magazine based in Sydney and first published in 1880.

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The Cars That Ate Paris

The Cars That Ate Paris is a 1974 Australian horror comedy film, produced by twin brothers Hal and Jim McElroy and directed by Peter Weir. Mad Max (film) and The Cars That Ate Paris are Australian independent films, films about automobiles and films set in Australia.

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The Getaway (1972 film)

The Getaway is a 1972 American action thriller film based on the 1958 novel by Jim Thompson.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Todd-AO

Todd-AO is an American post-production company founded in 1953 by Mike Todd and Robert Naify, providing sound-related services to the motion picture and television industries.

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Turner Broadcasting System

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. was an American television and media conglomerate founded by Ted Turner in 1965.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Ultra HD Blu-ray

Ultra HD Blu-ray (4K Ultra HD, UHD-BD, or 4K Blu-ray) is a digital optical disc data storage format that is an enhanced variant of Blu-ray.

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Ute (vehicle)

A ute, originally an abbreviation for "utility" or "coupé utility", is a term used in Australia and New Zealand to describe vehicles with a tonneau behind the passenger compartment, that can be driven with a regular driver's licence.

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Utopian and dystopian fiction

Utopian and dystopian fiction are subgenres of science fiction that explore social and political structures.

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V8 engine

A V8 engine is an eight-cylinder piston engine in which two banks of four cylinders share a common crankshaft and are arranged in a V configuration.

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Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

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Varèse Sarabande

Varèse Sarabande is an American record label, owned by Concord Music Group and distributed by Universal Music Group, which specializes in film scores and original cast recordings.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Victoria (state)

Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.

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Victoria Police

Victoria Police is the primary law enforcement agency of the Australian state of Victoria.

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Village Roadshow

Village Roadshow Pty Limited is an Australian company which operates cinemas and theme parks, and produces and distributes films.

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Village Roadshow Pictures

Village Roadshow Pictures is an American film and television production company and subsidiary of the Australian co-producer and co-financier of major Hollywood motion pictures established in 1989.

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Vincent Gil

Vincent Gil (1939 – 21 August 2022), also credited as Vince Gil (sometimes misspelled with double L), was an Australian film and television actor best known for his portrayal of the character Nightrider in the 1979 film Mad Max, and Stone.

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Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment

Warner Bros.

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Warner Bros. Pictures

Warner Bros.

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Wide-angle lens

In photography and cinematography, a wide-angle lens is a lens covering a large angle of view.

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1973 oil crisis

In October 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against the countries who had supported Israel at any point during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which began after Egypt and Syria launched a large-scale surprise attack in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the territories that they had lost to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.

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1979 Australian Film Institute Awards

The 21st Australian Film Institute Awards ceremony, presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), honored the best Australian feature films of 1979.

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20th Century Studios

20th Century Studios, Inc. is an American film studio owned by the Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, in turn a division of The Walt Disney Company.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max_(film)

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