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1 Turning the Outback into Post-apocalyptic Wasteland : What Mad Max Films Tell Us about Filming in the Australian Desert Melanie Ashe , 2024 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 22 May 2024;

'The Mad Max films are set in an arid, barren, post-apocalyptic world known in the movies as “the wasteland”. This is a world of environmental and civil collapse caused by humans. Resources like water are scarce. Clothes, food and transport – such as the film’s famous customised cars – are cobbled together from found and scavenged objects.' (Publication summary)
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